Ingessana ceremonial place
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.80
Previous Other Number:
K 9
Accession Number:
1998.344.80.2
Description:
A ceremonial site associated with the harvest consisting of large stones scattered on the ground.
The ceremonies may be those called san i karam nyane and san i karam mane, or festivals of the little and large offerings, at the beginning and end of the sorghum harvest.
Since Evans-Pritchard's visit occured after the hillside harvest but before the larger plains harvest, the festival of little offerings may well have just passed.
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:
Religion , Ritual
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"] - 80. Place of harvest ceremony. K.9
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Ceremonial spot (duplicate) K9"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 80. Place of harvest ceremony. K.9
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Ceremonial spot (duplicate) K9"
Other Information:
The JokTau Ingassana harvest festivals are mentioned on page 33-34 of M.C.
Jedrej's Ingessana: The Religious Institutions of a People of the Sudan-Ethiopia Borderland (E.J.Brill, The Netherlands 1995).
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
