Ingessana grinding shelter

103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.28.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.28

Previous Other Number:

H 2

Accession Number:

1998.344.28.2

Description:

A woman (unidentified) standing at a raised grinding bench within an unfinished circular shelter, the roof supports of which encircle her. The bench seems to consist of a surface of hardened clay soil with flat stones placed on top.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1926 November - December

Region:

Blue Nile Tabi Hills ?Soda

Group:

Ingessana (Gaam)

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XLVIa (facing page 434) In C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption 'Ingassana, raised bench with grindstones' [CM 18/8/2005]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Shelter , Domestic Life

Keyword:

Grinder , Building

Activity:

Food Preparing , Grinding

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"] - 28. Grinding table. H.2.

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "unfinished shelter showing grinding stone raised from the ground H2"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 29/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]