Village on Jebel Sillok

103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.344.203.1 - Negative film nitrate , (103 x 76 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.203

Previous Other Number:

P 8

Accession Number:

1998.344.203.2

Description:

Looking down through trees at huts of an Aka settlement built on a flat area on the rocky hill. The language of the Aka people of Jebel Sillok is part of the Berta group of languages. They called themselves Fa-c-aka or people of Aka.

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:

Topography , Settlement , Shelter

Keyword:

Village , Building House

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"] - 203. Village. (Sillok). P.8

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "View of village on G. Sillok taken from above P.8"

Other Information:

In Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung, Sudan Notes and Records XV Part I, 1932, page 3, E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that 'all the huts are built on the top of the hill wherever a flat peice of rock gives sufficient basis for building mud walls on which a conical straw roof is mounted.' [Chris Morton 23/2/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 23/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]