Ingessana terrace agriculture

103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.52.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)

Condition:

Slight fading upper left hand side [EE 1989]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.52

Previous Other Number:

BB 4

Accession Number:

1998.344.52.2

Description:

Looking across a section of hillside terrace cultivation (kal) constructed by gathering locally available surface rocks and building them into low walls which allow retention of soils and moisture for agriculture. The Ingessana grew two harvests in the year, reaping in February and September, with the first crop restricted to the terraces next to the hill habitations and the second on the plains some two hours walk away. Evans-Pritchard notes that the terrace crops had been reaped some weeks before he arrived in early November.

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:

Agriculture and Horticulture , Topography

Keyword:

Field

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"] - 52. Terrace cultivations. BB. 4

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Terrace cultivations (close up) BB-4"

Notes on card mount ms pencil - "slight fading ulh 10/11/86 EE"

Other Information:

In A Preliminary Account of the Ingassana Tribe in Fung Province, Sudan Notes and Records X, 1927, page 76, E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that 'the Ingassana grow two harvests during the year, one which had been cut some weeks before I entered their country at the beginning of November, and a second which I was told would be gathered in about a month after I left Soda at the beginning of january. They probably reap these crops in September and in Febrruary, but I am not certain about the date of the early (September) harvest. The first crop is sown in small terraced plots adjoining the houses on the slopes or bases of the hills. Small stone walls surround the plots. This crop is nagad millet. I was told a little maize was also sown.' [Chris Morton 3/2/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 3/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]