Place of religious ceremony
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.4
Previous Other Number:
BB 5
Accession Number:
1998.344.4.2
Description:
In the foreground to the right is a small fire-pit with stones set around it used in religious ceremonies, probably near to a chief's residence and known as Fa Falk, which was possibly connected with a clan group known as JokFalk.
Beyond are the rolling sparsely wooded hills of the Tabi massif.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 November - December
Region:
Blue Nile Tabi Hills Fa Falk
Group:
Ingessana (Gaam)
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Topography , Ritual , Fire
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"] - 4. Scenery with place of Clan Ceremony. BB-5
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "BB-5 Fa falk. Ceremonial place. The remains of Ceremonial fire in the foreground"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 4. Scenery with place of Clan Ceremony. BB-5
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "BB-5 Fa falk. Ceremonial place. The remains of Ceremonial fire in the foreground"
Other Information:
In A Preliminary Account of the Ingassana Tribe in Fung Province, Sudan Notes and Records X, 1927, page 73, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Each of these peoples has a place of ceremony which is usually at the house of the chief, and a man will return there at times of ceremony to take part with his own people.
In many ways this group is like a clan, at one time territorial and corresponding with the political canton group.' In Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan, London, Routledge 1932, page 431, C.G.
& B.
Seligman note that the Ingessana sub-group of the tribe, or canton, is not a clan since it is not exogamous, although the smaller unit known as kindred is exogamous.
It seems likely that the ceremonial place in this image is connected with the religious function of the chief of a territorial canton unit which E-P compares to a clan since people retain identities based upon their village of birth.
[Chris Morton 27/1/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 27/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
