Ingessana smithy
103 x 76 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.32.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)
1998.344.32.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.32
Previous Other Number:
C 10
Accession Number:
1998.344.32.1
Description:
One of two smiths working inside a simple shelter covered with grasses and matting for shade, working the bellows of a simple forge.
Although no smelting took place in the Tabi hills, the working of metal was common and apprentices were taken on for several years to learn the craft.
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:
Industry , Metalwork , Shelter
Keyword:
Building , [Metal Iron] , Forge
Activity:
Manufacturing
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"] - 32. Man working Smith's bellows. C.10
Note on negative scratched - "C.10"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 32. Man working Smith's bellows. C.10
Note on negative scratched - "C.10"
Other Information:
In A Preliminary Account of the Ingassana Tribe in Fung Province, Sudan Notes and Records X, 1927, page 77, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'In the Soda district, where iron-working is to-day a flourishing industry, there were only two smiths, who had learnt their craft from hill Gule.
There are not only a large number of smiths, but the profession is open to any youth who cares to serve two or three years of apprenticeship to the trade...' [Chris Morton 29/1/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 29/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
