Mabaan man with bow
100 x 75 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.184
Previous Other Number:
Q 2
Accession Number:
1998.344.184
Description:
A man wearing a round of dammur cloth firing an arrow.
Evans-Pritchard had intended a tour of the Southern Burun (who Evans-Pritchard calls Meban) of the Yabus river after visiting Jebel Ulu, whose people were related.
However, sickness meant that he had to restrict interviews to a group of three Mabaan men from Koda who had been summoned to Ulu by the local ruler Sheikh Idris.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 December
Region:
Blue Nile Jebel Ulu
Group:
Mabaan
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Weapon
Keyword:
Bow , Arrow
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
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.
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 184. Man using bow and arrow. (Burun). Q.2
Note on negative ms ink - "Q"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 184. Man using bow and arrow. (Burun). Q.2
Note on negative ms ink - "Q"
Other Information:
In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records Vol.XV, Part i, 1932 p.
17, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'It had been my ambition to to extend my tour to include the Southern Burun within its circuit since they are ethnologically-speaking an almost unknown people.
Sickness compelled me to abandon the project, however, and I had to be content with a short chat with a few Meban from Koda who Sheikh Idris had summoned to Ulu during my stay there.' The men of the 'Q' negative series can be identified as Mabaan, since one of the images [1998.344.218] is reproduced in E-P's article with the caption 'Meban Type (Koda)'.
[Chris Morton 24/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 19/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
