Shilluk village on river
55 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.348.16.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 55 mm)
1998.348.16.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.SH.15
Accession Number:
1998.348.16.2
Description:
A very distant view from a steam boat on the Sobat or White Nile River of five separate groupings of Shilluk huts in a treeless plain.
It seems that Evans-Pritchard visited a Shilluk village briefly during one of his trips to the Nuer, probably the Doleib Hill missionary station on the Sobat River (roughly six miles from its confluence with the White Nile), established in 1902 by the American Presbytarian Mission and after 1925 run by Rev.
J.
A.
Heasty, seen in one of the images.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1935 circa
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat or White Nile River
Group:
Shilluk
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Shelter , Topography
Keyword:
Building House , Rivers & Streams
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 print reverse ms pencil - "Shilluk Shilluk villages"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Shilluk Shilluk villages"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 15/3/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
