Baobab fruit collecting in Tabi hills

Baobab fruit collecting in Tabi hills
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.37.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
Condition:
Residual chemical staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.37
Previous Other Number:
CC 9


Accession Number:
1998.344.37.2
Description:
Two individuals using long poles to hook down fruits from a very large Adansonia digitata tree (known as tebeldi in arabic and baobab (from Arabic bu-hibab, manifold seeds)) elsewhere in Africa) which has been stripped of much of its bark around its base for fibre used in cord-making, shown in other images. Baobab fruit is high in vitamin C as well as having anti-diarrhoeal and other properties.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 November - December
Region:
Blue Nile Tabi Hills ?Soda
Group:
Ingessana (Gaam)
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Gathering , Plant Use , Vegetation , Food and Drink
Keyword:
Plant , Foodstuff
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"] - 37. Gathering tebeldi fruit to eat. CC.9

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Hooking down tebeldi fruit to eat. (getting ufu) CC9"

Notes on card mount ms pencil - "RCS 10/11/86 EE"

Other Information:
It is unclear what E-P's (probably earlier) notation on the print reverse referring to "ufu" means. [Chris Morton 2/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 2/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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