Sobat River

55 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.348.12.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 55 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.SH.12

Previous Other Number:

9 (102)

Accession Number:

1998.348.12.2

Description:

Some Shilluk women in the distance with large water pots standing on the bank of the Sobat River having collected water. A long rope stretches across the bank into the water in the foreground, perhaps a mooring for the boat that Evans-Pritchard was travelling on along the river. It seems that Evans-Pritchard visited a Shilluk village briefly during one of his trips to the Nuer, probably the Doleib Hill missionary station on the Sobat River (roughly six miles from its confluence with the White Nile), established in 1902 by the American Presbytarian Mission and after 1925 run by Rev. J. A. Heasty, seen in one of the images.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1935 circa

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River

Group:

Shilluk

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Topography , Water Supply

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.

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "9 102 Sobat"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 15/3/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]