Akobo river near Pochala
60 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.10
Previous Other Number:
17 2
Accession Number:
1998.342.10.2
Description:
A wide but ponded section of the Akobo river near Pochala.
Evans-Pritchard visited Anuakland during March-May, the end of the dry season.
Such ponding of rivers is characteristic of the retention of recent rainfall, but are mainly sites of water availability throughout the dry season for people and animals retained from the previous year's river flooding.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Pochala
Group:
Anuak
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Water Supply , Topography
Keyword:
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.
Notes on print/mount - "17 2 Pocala"
Notes on print/mount - "17 2 Pocala"
Other Information:
The previous electronic catalogue entry relating to numbers EP.AK.1-17 identified the river as Oboth.
I have been unable to confirm this information elsewhere, and so have assumed that the images are of the Akobo river, near which Pochala is situated.
[Chris Morton 12/12/2003] In The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940) page 16, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'The Akobo and Oboth may cease to flow in their upper reaches at the height of the dry season but there is never any difficulty about drinking water as deep large pools are always to be found in the beds of these rivers.'[Chris Morton 18/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 15/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
