Nuer marriage ox

100 x 75 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.122.2 - Print gelatin silver , (100 x 75 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.122

Previous Other Number:

31 4 [frame 7]

Accession Number:

1998.346.122.1

Description:

A number of people gathered some distance away, some dancing, bringing towards the camera an ox used in the payment of bridewealth. Quite frequently the full amount of bridewealth agreed upon was not transferred before the ceremonies took place, and so this ox may represent the last animal agreed upon before the wedding ceremony could take place, rather than the last ox of the agreed bridwealth.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1931

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Yoinyang

Group:

Nuer ?Leek

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Animal Husbandry , Social Life , Dance

Keyword:

Animal Cattle

Documentation:

Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]

Primary Documentation:

Accession Book Entry: [p. 98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD 1966.27.17 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled. (some missing). Nos. 1 - 213. (prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of prints each in separate envelope. Nos. 1 - 213. (negatives in 1966.27.17.)

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 122. Bringing in final marriage ox. (L.) [Large size] (31/4)

Note on negative mech. printed "7"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [14/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]