Expedition porters in Anuakland with baggage
60 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.19
Previous Other Number:
3 (48)
Accession Number:
1998.342.19.2
Description:
A group of carriers loading baggage during a break in the day's march across Anuakland.
Evans-Pritchard notes that he was able to recruit Anuak porters locally in Akobo at the beginning of the two month expedition in March 1935.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Expedition , Physical Anthropology
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.
Notes on print/mount - "3 48"
Notes on print/mount - "3 48"
Other Information:
In The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940) page 3, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'on the outward journey to Pocala I took the Akobo River route along the Oboth and Agwei.
During these two and a half months much time was spent in actual treking, between 400 and 500 miles being covered on foot.' [Chris Morton 16/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 19/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
