Nuer cattle byre

40 x 30 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.187.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.187

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.346.187.1

Description:

A well constructed cattle byre (luak) in a village homestead. Such byres were constructed by making a wall of wooden stakes and by then joining together long branches to form rafters, which were then thatched. The thatch of this byre has been tied together at the ends, possibly to stop cattle from eating the ends through the gaps in the stakes whilst housed inside at night. In the right foreground can be seen a hut of the village type as well as what looks like a firescreen with its hearth filled with water after a shower of rain.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1931

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile ?Nyanding River ?Sobat River

Group:

Nuer ?Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Shelter , Fire

Keyword:

Building Animals

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)"] - 187. Kraal and hut. (S.) [small size]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [20/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]