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Quote: It remained for the experts to determine the area covered by the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms in 1905, and this proved more difficult. The contemporary documentary record was incomplete. It was in the nature of both the climate and the itinerant administration that no British official visited the Ngok during the rainy season; therefore there was no independent observation of the most northerly Ngok movements in the late rains and early dry season, or their seasonal use of pools and pastures near or in the Qoz belt. Without such corroboration Ngok oral testimony, by itself, could not prove the extent of Ngok settlement, seasonal use, or claims in 1905. The experts resolved this problem by looking at the administrative practice of the Condominium, and the legal issues surrounding shared resource use. [/QUOT] Quote: Condominium officials generally avoided dividing single tribes between two or more provinces, and treated a tribal territory as a whole, even if they were unclear about the exact extent of that territory. The Ngok Dinka were therefore transferred as a whole in 1905, and throughout the period 1905–54 British administrators assumed a territorial continuity of the Ngok. No Condominium record was found documenting any significant or permanent alteration of a specific part of Ngok territory Quote: The question of a boundary was complicated by the overlapping seasonal use of the area by the Humr Misseriya. Here the experts were guided by the legal principles regulating land rights, as opposed to land ownership. A distinction was made between ‘dominant rights’ in permanent settlements, and ‘secondary’ or seasonal rights to the use of land. There are numerous examples in the Sudan, and elsewhere in British-administered territories in Africa, where a transhumant group, such as the Humr, had shared rights in land use on a seasonal basis: examples of the Malwal Dinka and Rizeigat Baggara, and the Lou and Gaawar Nuer are mentioned above.29 Quote: The area of the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms, therefore, included territory where they had dominant rights (permanent settlements) and territory where they had secondary rights (seasonal use). Ngok secondary rights overlapped with Misseriya secondary rights. The experts determined that the boundary, stipulated by the Abyei Protocol, should bisect the area of shared secondary rights equally. This placed it in the Qoz belt that intervened between the Ngok and Misseriya permanent settlements, south of the line claimed by the SPLM and Ngok.30