Ingessana boy

Ingessana boy
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.98
Previous Other Number:
L 12


Accession Number:
1998.344.98.2
Description:
A full face head and shoulders portrait of a youth, identified as Gez, one of Evans-Pritchard's Ingessana personal servants for three weeks during his visit to the hills. Evans-Pritchard adds the biographical note that this youth's father had been hung by the government, although he does not mention why.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 November - December
Region:
Blue Nile Tabi Hills ?Soda
Group:
Ingessana (Gaam)
NamedPerson:
Gez
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology
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"] - 98. Boy. L.12

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Phy. Type. Gez (a boy whose father the government hung) he was with me for three weeks L12"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton 9/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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