Gee is the legendary first ancestor of the Nuer people, from whom the aristocratic Nuer clans reckon their descent and after whom the founding stock of the Nuer is remembered (the Gaat-Gee, 'children of Gee'). His story was first written down from oral tradition by C. H. Stigand, sometime Governor of the Upper Nile Province, in 1919, was recorded again by E. E. Evans-Pritchard during his fieldwork in the 1930s, and was analysed by the Nuer historian Gabriel Giet Jal in his 1987 history of the Jikany. In the best-known episode Gee split open a calabash gourd out of which came the child Kir, whom he reared and whose descendants became the Gaatgankir, the dominant clan of the Jikany tribes.