Burun man

103 x 76 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.D.128

Previous Other Number:

K 4

Accession Number:

1998.344.128.2

Description:

An upper body profile portrait of a seated young man, wearing numerous ornaments and with carefully dressed hair. The people of Mughaja hill called themselves Mumugadja and spoke a dialect of Burun. Beyond him is a large hut, possibly the boys' house on the hill known as a bilu, noted by Evans-Pritchard.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1926 December

Region:

Blue Nile Jebel Mughaja

Group:

Burun (Mughaja)

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate Vb (facing page 34) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung , Sudan Notes and Records Vol.XV, Part i, 1932, with the caption 'Mughaja type'. [Chris Morton 12/2/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Toilet , Ornament , Shelter

Keyword:

Ornament Arm , Ornament Neck , Building House Communal

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"] - 128. Male type. (Mughaja). K.4

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Phy type. (Mughaja) [showing negroid characters (struckthrough)] K4"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 12/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]