Nuer dog
100 x 71 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.19.2 - Print gelatin silver , (100 x 71 mm)
1998.346.19.2 - Print gelatin silver , (100 x 71 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.19
Previous Other Number:
09 (11)
Accession Number:
1998.346.19.1
Description:
A portrait of a Nuer dog, with tawny coloured fur markings known as mayan in cattle.
The Nuer used dogs in the small amount of hunting which they undertook mostly in the dry season, chasing game such as Gazelles until they were tired after which spearing would finish the animal off.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Animal Dog
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)"] - 19. Dog (Mayan). (L.) [Large size]
Note on negative ms mech. printed - "11"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 19. Dog (Mayan). (L.) [Large size]
Note on negative ms mech. printed - "11"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
