Expedition porters on Anuakland plains
60 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.55
Previous Other Number:
44 2 (141)
Accession Number:
1998.342.55.2
Description:
A group of carriers in the distance resting during a break in the day's march across Anuakland.
Evans-Pritchard notes that he was able to recruit Anuak porters locally in Akobo at the beginning of the two month expedition in March 1935.
This sort of grassy plain is characteristic of western Anuakland south of Akobo as far as Utalo on the Oboth and Nyighum on the Akobo, and may have been taken during his march back to Akobo in May 1935.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Topography , Vegetation , Expedition
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 - "44 2 141"
Notes on print/mount - "44 2 141"
Other Information:
In The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940) page 15, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'In the Sudan the western part, from Akobo as far as Nyighum and Utalo, is a continuation of the great plain that stretches westwards [sic] from the Nile.
It is very bleak and is further characterised by its clayey soils, its high grasses and by the general absence of trees...
it is sodden during the rains and parched at the height of the drought.'[Chris Morton 18/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
