Anuak headman's homestead
83 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.165.1 - Negative film nitrate , (83 x 55 mm)
1998.342.165.1 - Negative film nitrate , (83 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.165
Previous Other Number:
05 2 (270)
Accession Number:
1998.342.165.2
Description:
Looking across a village space with a raised granary beyond and forked (cattle-horn shaped) spear-rests near the entrance to the compound of the headmen of Dibango, with elongated fence-posts (dikweri) carved with notched hoops, some with horns displayed on them.
This display was generally reserved for headmen only, but occasionally for other popular individuals of a village.
There were two headmen of two separate clans in Dibango, who Evans-Pritchard names as Didimo of a lineage of the Jowatcuaa clan and Udol of the Jowatyuaa clan, the former noted as being of more status.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Dibango
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Insignia , Settlement , Shelter , Carving
Keyword:
Fence , Building House , Building Storage , Storage Crop
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p.
98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S.
SUDAN, DARFUNG.
VARIOUS TRIBES.
Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.
Notes on print/mount - "05 2 270 Dibango"
Notes on print/mount - "05 2 270 Dibango"
Other Information:
Another view of the same fence is reproduced as Plate IVb (facing page 40) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940), with the caption 'Carved posts at court of headman of Dibango'.
[Chris Morton 17/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 9/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
