Ingessana chief's bench
103 x 76 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.229
Previous Other Number:
C 2
Accession Number:
1998.344.229
Description:
A woman and man holding up a chief's low bench (dar).
The dar was considered part of the regalia of Ingessana chiefs, along with the punuk or little shrine-hut of a god.
On the death of a chief this bench is carried to the house of his successor.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 November - December
Region:
Blue Nile Tabi Hills ?Soda ?Kukur
Group:
Ingessana (Gaam)
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Furniture Dwelling , Insignia
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"] - 229. Chief's ceremonial bench. C.2
Note on negative scratched - "C 2"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 229. Chief's ceremonial bench. C.2
Note on negative scratched - "C 2"
Other Information:
In A Preliminary Account of the Ingassana Tribe in Fung Province, Sudan Notes and Records X, 1927, page 74 E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes '[i]n the Soda and Kukur districts, at least, the chiefs have an additional mark of office in the dar, a wooden bench or stool which rests in the punuk and is carried on the decease of a chief to the house of his successor.' [Chris Morton 23/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 24/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
