Site of Anuak royal village
82 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.68.1 - Negative film nitrate , (82 x 55 mm)
1998.342.68.1 - Negative film nitrate , (82 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.68
Previous Other Number:
19 2 (186)
Accession Number:
1998.342.68.2
Description:
In the distance across the grassy plain can be seen a bank of raised ground and a line of Balanites Aegyptiaca (date) trees, the site of the royal village Umar, a residence of the younger wives of past Anuak kings without children.
Oko village was where royal wives with children resided.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Umar
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Topography , Vegetation
Keyword:
Plant , Village
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 - "19 2 186"
Notes on print/mount - "19 2 186"
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 87-88, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'An hour and a half from Abetacan and half an hour from Akwaiyajwok there are two conspicuous mounds on either side of the Adongo watercourse.
They are strewn with pot sherds and must have been village sites over a long period.
One of them is covered with green grass fringed with heglig trees and is called Umar (Plate XI) ...
They formed the village of the nobles from the time they settled in the present country of the Anuak.
Umar was the residence of the younger wives of the king and Oko was the residence of the wives with children.'[Chris Morton 19/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 19/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
