Aka men brick-making

103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.172.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.172

Previous Other Number:

N 4

Accession Number:

1998.344.172.2

Description:

A group of men putting brick mixture (earth and fine grass) into shallow moulds before being left to sun-harden. Although Evans-Pritchard noted that Aka huts were built using such mud bricks, these bricks seem too thin to be used to build walls up in the usual way, and may have been used as external tiles cemented together over a wooden structure. The slightly curved nature of the bricks suggests their use in this way, following the curve of the wall.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1926 December

Region:

Blue Nile Jebel Sillok

Group:

Aka (Sillok)

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Social Life , Raw Material

Activity:

Manufacturing

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"] - 172. House building activity. (Sillok). N.4

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Showing the method of making bricks N4"

Other Information:

In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, pages 3-4 & 6, E. E. Evans-Pritchard discusses in some detail this particular brick-making scene as well as the instance of mother-in-law avoidance that accompanied it. [Chris Morton 16/2/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 16/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]