Anuak king with stool and spear-rest
60 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.85.1 - Negative film nitrate , (60 x 60 mm)
1998.342.85.1 - Negative film nitrate , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.85
Previous Other Number:
44 4 (176)
Accession Number:
1998.342.85.2
Description:
Just out of frame is King Aguaa-war-Akuon of Obuodhi village, with a royal stool standing on a skin beside him the royal spear-rest holding a spear.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Obuodhi
Group:
Anuak
NamedPerson:
Aguaa-war-Akuon
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Weapon , Furniture Dwelling , Shelter , Insignia
Keyword:
Spear
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 4 176"
Notes on print/mount - "44 4 176"
Other Information:
Aguaa-war-Akuon is referred to in several places 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), and a photograph of him is reproduced facing page 128, with the caption "Aguaa-war-Akuon, the present king, wearing the royal necklaces and seated on one of the royal stools" [Chris Morton 22/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 5/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
