the preference of the client or smith. There are reported to be 78 hills in the area, some rising 300 meters above the surrounding flat plains. While the plains are grassland with occasional acacia trees, the vegetation in the hills has a much greater variety of plants and trees, with water sources even in the dry season. Their traditional religion is thought to be based on worship of the Sun, but there is a distinction from the physical phenomenon of the Sun ("tel") and the creator-deity "Tel". This confusion may be based on the fact that the Gaahmg language is tonal (that is, relative pitch is used to contrast between different words and/or different grammatical forms). Extensive research on the Gaahmg has been done by anthropologists Charles Jȩdrej and Akira Okazaki, the latter referring to them as "Gâmk". Writing in 1941, the journalist George Steer, then an officer in the colonial British military force attempting to oust the Italians from Ethiopia, described the Ingessana in his account of the campaign: References Further reading E.E. Evans-Pritchard (1927). A preliminary account of the Ingassa people in Fung Province. Sudan Notes and Records, vol. 10 1927, pp. 69-83. External links Field recordings from 1980 of traditional music of the Ingessana and Berta peoples in Sudan’s Blue Nile State Ethnic groups in Sudan History of Sudan