Anuak headman's homestead

83 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.164.2 - Print gelatin silver , (83 x 55 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.AK.164

Previous Other Number:

05 2 (271)

Accession Number:

1998.342.164.1

Description:

Looking towards the entrance to the compound of the headmen of Dibango, with elongated fence-posts (dikweri) carved with notched hoops, some with horns displayed on them. This display was generally reserved for headmen only, but occasionally for other popular individuals of a village. There were two headmen of two separate clans in Dibango, who Evans-Pritchard names as Didimo of a lineage of the Jowatcuaa clan and Udol of the Jowatyuaa clan, the former noted as being of more status.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935 March - May

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Dibango

Group:

Anuak

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Insignia , Settlement , Shelter , Carving

Keyword:

Fence , Building House

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.

Note on negative m/s ink - "271"

Other Information:

Another view of the same fence is reproduced as Plate IVb (facing page 40) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940), with the caption 'Carved posts at court of headman of Dibango'. [Chris Morton 17/12/2003]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 9/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]