Aka women bringing water
103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.187.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
1998.344.187.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.187
Previous Other Number:
N 8
Accession Number:
1998.344.187.2
Description:
A line of women making their way up the hill with water vessels suspended from carrying poles for use in brick-making.
A moistened mixture of earth and fine grass is placed in moulds and sun-hardened.
Evans-Pritchard notes that mother-in-law avoidance was practicised during the brick-making that he witnessed here, the men dispersing as the female relations approached with water.
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 , Water Supply
Keyword:
Vessel
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"] - 187. Mother-in-law avoidance. (Sillok). N.8
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Women taking water to pour on the earth in making bricks. See next photo. N8"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 187. Mother-in-law avoidance. (Sillok). N.8
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Women taking water to pour on the earth in making bricks. See next photo. N8"
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 13/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 19/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
