Anuak nobles
60 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.342.77.1 - Negative film nitrate , (60 x 60 mm)
1998.342.77.1 - Negative film nitrate , (60 x 60 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.77
Previous Other Number:
44 3 (159)
Accession Number:
1998.342.77.2
Description:
A group of men and three nobles seated on the ground at Kinha village (associated with the Jowatong clan).
The nobles are sitting on a floor cloth due to their status, identified from the left as Abula-wa-Gilo (smoking water pipe), Anyoonya-wa-Thomo and Por-wa-Ngeenyo.
Abula is noted as a noble of Kinha village, with Anyoonya residing at Udhak.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Kinha
Group:
Anuak
NamedPerson:
Abula-wa-Gilo, Anyoonya-wa-Thomo, Por-wa-Ngeenyo
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Social Life , Narcotic , Ornament
Keyword:
Pipe , Ornament Neck
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 - "Abula-Gilo Anyoonya-Thomo Por-Ngeenyo at Kinha 44 3 159"
Notes on print/mount - "Abula-Gilo Anyoonya-Thomo Por-Ngeenyo at Kinha 44 3 159"
Other Information:
Two of the nobles in this image, Abula-wa-Gilo and Anyoonya-wa-Thomo, are mentioned on page 117 of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940).
It is uncertain where Por-wa-Ngeenyo resided, but the possibility is that he lived in Kinha with Abula, and was therefore a noble of the Jowatong clan.
[Chris Morton 5/1/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 5/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
