Ingessana girls' hut

Ingessana girls' hut
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Residual chemical staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.84
Previous Other Number:
C 4


Accession Number:
1998.344.84.2
Description:
A collapsed hut with wicker walls described as a girls' hut within chief Nurufa's household. It is possible that it belonged to a girl who had married and moved into her husband's hut, sometimes built nearby. Homesteads normally had three types of hut: that of the household head (we tal mu); that for children and their mothers (we i jalge); a kitchen (we i fek); and a shelter for calves and kids (al i mok).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 November - December
Region:
Blue Nile Tabi Hills Soda
Group:
Ingessana (Gaam)
NamedPerson:
Nurufa
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter
Keyword:
Building House
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"] - 84. Girl's hut. C.4

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Girl's house (Nurufa) C4"

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

Other Information:
The Ingassana homestead is discussed in detail on pages 23-24 of M.C. Jedrej's Ingessana: The Religious Institutions of a People of the Sudan-Ethiopia Borderland (E.J.Brill, The Netherlands 1995). [Chris Morton 5/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 5/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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