View of hill Sillok

103 x 76 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.204.2 - Print gelatin silver , (103 x 76 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.204

Previous Other Number:

M 8

Accession Number:

1998.344.204.1

Description:

Looking towards the main route up to the Aka village on the top of the rocky hill from below where lived some of the retainers and wives of Sheik Idris, a local Arab ruler. Evans-Pritchard noted that the Aka lived in one long straggling settlement on the hill, reached by a difficult assent. The language of the Aka people of Jebel Sillok is part of the Berta group of languages. They called themselves Fa-c-aka or people of Aka.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1926 December

Region:

Blue Nile Jebel Sillok

Group:

Aka (Sillok)

NamedPerson:

Sheik Idris

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Topography , Settlement

Keyword:

Village

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"] - 204. Scenery, showing hillside village. (Sillok). M.8

Note on negative ms ink - "M"

Other Information:

In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, page 3, E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that '[t]oday there is one long straggling village which ambles across the top of the hill. The huts are perched right at the summit and to reach them one must clamber up a steep incline. The old Fuin residence is still represented by a small village at the foot of the hill where reside some of Sheik Idris's wives and children and retainers, among whom their master makes periodic stays.' [Chris Morton 23/2/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 23/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]