Anuak noble
83 x 53 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.AK.186
Previous Other Number:
19 5 (202)
Accession Number:
1998.342.186.2
Description:
A portrait of a man (identified as Abula) wearing a long textile body cloth loosely across his shoulder.
Based on Evans-Pritchard's film number for this image, this man is probably Abula-wa-ACic, the son of a prominent elder at Pochala, and a member of the Jowatcuaa clan.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 March - May
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei ?Pochala
Group:
Anuak
NamedPerson:
?Abula-wa-Aciek
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Clothing
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 - "19 5 202 Abula"
Notes on print/mount - "19 5 202 Abula"
Other Information:
A brief search of The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (monographs on Social Anthropology no.4, London School of Economics, 1940) identifies several men with the same name: Abula-wa-Ubang at Gwac; Abula-wa-Aruodi at Koc; Abula-war-Akwei and Abula-wa-Ucudhu living at Gorkuoo near to Pochala.
However, since the film number directly follows other images taken in Pochala village, this location is more likely, and therefore makes the identity of this man as Abula the son of one of its prominent elders Aciek more likely.
[Chris Morton 12/1/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 12/1/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
