View of hill Sillok
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.204.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
1998.344.204.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.204
Previous Other Number:
M 8
Accession Number:
1998.344.204.2
Description:
Looking towards the main route up to the Aka village on the top of the rocky hill from below where lived some of the retainers and wives of Sheik Idris, a local Arab ruler.
Evans-Pritchard noted that the Aka lived in one long straggling settlement on the hill, reached by a difficult assent.
The language of the Aka people of Jebel Sillok is part of the Berta group of languages.
They called themselves Fa-c-aka or people of Aka.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 December
Region:
Blue Nile Jebel Sillok
Group:
Aka (Sillok)
NamedPerson:
Sheik Idris
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Topography , Settlement
Keyword:
Village
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"] - 204. Scenery, showing hillside village. (Sillok). M.8
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "G. Sillok as seen from the side of Idris' village. This is the side of ascent to the main village. M8"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 204. Scenery, showing hillside village. (Sillok). M.8
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "G. Sillok as seen from the side of Idris' village. This is the side of ascent to the main village. M8"
Other Information:
In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, page 3, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that '[t]oday there is one long straggling village which ambles across the top of the hill.
The huts are perched right at the summit and to reach them one must clamber up a steep incline.
The old Fuin residence is still represented by a small village at the foot of the hill where reside some of Sheik Idris's wives and children and retainers, among whom their master makes periodic stays.' [Chris Morton 23/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 23/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
