Ingessana ceremonial place

103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.81

Previous Other Number:

I 4

Accession Number:

1998.344.81.2

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"] - 81. Place of harvest ceremony. K.4 [ NB this should be I 4][Chris Morton 5/2/2004]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "believe this to be place of ceremony I 4"

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 5/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]