Anuak ring-pad
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Accession Number:
1936.10.50
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan]
Cultural Group:
Anywaa [Anuak]
Date Made:
By 1936
Materials:
Grass Fibre Plant , Bast Fibre Bark Plant
Process:
Chequer Woven , Bound
Dimensions:
Outer L = 166, W = 164 mm; inner L = 70, W = 65 mm, Th = 46 mm; W strips = 3 to 5 mm [RTS 11/8/2004].
Weight:
130.7 g
Local Name:
tkac
Other Owners:
Presumably collected by Evans-Pritchard during his period of fieldwork amongst the Anuak between early March and May 1935 [RTS 18/6/2004].
Field Collector:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1936
Collected Date:
March - May 1935
Description:
Roughly circular ring-pad made from a core of bundled grass, bent into a loop, and then bound by winding narrow reddish brown strips of bast around the body (Pantone 478C).
The outer surface was then further decorated by weaving in additional strips of yellow bast at right angles to these in a simple check weave pattern (Pantone 7508C).
The two colour decoration does not extend as far as the inner face.
The horizontal yellow strips are sewn together with another strip of brown bast that runs around the width of the ring near its top.
The ends of each strip were then gathered into a bundle that sticks up from the top outside edge of the ring, secured by further brown strips that have been wound several times around the ring width before continuing on as an outer binding for the projecting section.
The object is complete and intact, with a weight of 130.7 grams.
It measures 166 by 164 mm across its outside edges, 70 by 65 mm across its inside edges and is 46 mm thick; the projecting grass bundle at the top of the ring is mm 54 long and 8.7 mm wide, and each of the bast strips that makes up the surface covering has a width of around 3 to 5 mm.
Collected by E.E. Evans-Pritchard during his fieldwork amongst the Anuak, which took place between early March and May 1935 (E.E. Evans-Pritchard, 1940, The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, p. 3).
This type of ring was used by women for carrying water pots and other objects on the head; it is called tkac by the Anuak.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Collected by E.E. Evans-Pritchard during his fieldwork amongst the Anuak, which took place between early March and May 1935 (E.E. Evans-Pritchard, 1940, The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, p. 3).
This type of ring was used by women for carrying water pots and other objects on the head; it is called tkac by the Anuak.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry
[p.
410] - 1936 [insert] 10 [end insert] E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD, M.A., Exeter College, Oxford.
- Specimens collected by himself in the EASTERN SUDAN, while travelling with a Grant from the
Rockefeller
Leverhulme Trustees, viz: [p.
414] [insert] 50 [end insert] - ditto [
Tkac
, ring-pad of grass and bast], covered with plaited bark in two colours, ANUAK.
Additional Accession Book Entry [p. 413] - 1936.10.49, 50 numbers given - LW. [1936.10].49 Diam = [...] [1936.10].50 Diam = [...] [Note that the measurements were never entered].
Card Catalogue Entry - [insert, red biro] A9-F4-30 [end insert]. EASTERN SUDAN, ANUAK. Tkae , ring-pad of grass and bast, for carrying pots, etc. on head, covered with plaited bark in two colours. Coll. by donor. d.d. E.E. Evans-Pritchard, 1936 [RTS 30/1/2004].
Old Pitt Rivers Museum label - Ring-pad of grass wound with bast for carrying water-pots etc. on the head. Thac . ANUAK, E. SUDAN. d.d. E. Evans-Pritchard 1926 [rectangular metal-edged tag, tied to object; RTS 11/8/2004].
Additional Accession Book Entry [p. 413] - 1936.10.49, 50 numbers given - LW. [1936.10].49 Diam = [...] [1936.10].50 Diam = [...] [Note that the measurements were never entered].
Card Catalogue Entry - [insert, red biro] A9-F4-30 [end insert]. EASTERN SUDAN, ANUAK. Tkae , ring-pad of grass and bast, for carrying pots, etc. on head, covered with plaited bark in two colours. Coll. by donor. d.d. E.E. Evans-Pritchard, 1936 [RTS 30/1/2004].
Old Pitt Rivers Museum label - Ring-pad of grass wound with bast for carrying water-pots etc. on the head. Thac . ANUAK, E. SUDAN. d.d. E. Evans-Pritchard 1926 [rectangular metal-edged tag, tied to object; RTS 11/8/2004].
