Anuak noble in homestead

Anuak noble in homestead
60 x 60 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.27.2 - Print gelatin silver , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.27
Previous Other Number:
44 (170)


Accession Number:
1998.342.27.1
Description:
A full length portrait of a man standing inside a homestead wearing a textile body cloth, identified as Uliimi-war-Akuon, who Evans-Pritchard describes as a nobleman living with maternal kin at Ukwaa in Thim district. There is a small enclosure behind him made of thin stick uprights loosely joined at the top by a twisted length of fibre, and possibly marks a grave. Bundles of thatching grass are stacked in the homestead, some next to a raised granary.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei ?Ukwaa
Group:
Anuak
NamedPerson:
Uliimi-war-Akuon
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Clothing , Raw Material , Shelter , Settlement
Keyword:
Building Storage
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 - "170"

Other Information:
Uliimi-war-Akuon is mentioned on page 115 of 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) [Chris Morton 16/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 16/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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