Nuer girls

100 x 75 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.204.2 - Print gelatin silver , (127 x 95 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Same Image As:

1998.346.139

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.204

Previous Other Number:

B10 (76 3)

Accession Number:

1998.346.204.1

Description:

Full length portraits of two girls standing in a homestead, with two huts visible beyond. The older girl to the left is wearing a metal neck ornament and waist strings. Her face is smeared with ash from the fire, a common daily practice.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1931

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jonglei Upper Nile

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Ornament

Keyword:

Ornament Arm , Ornament Body , Ornament Neck , Ornament Ear

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)"] - 204. Female types. (L.) [Large size]

Note on negative ms ink - "B" & mech. printed "10"

Other Information:

Another print from this negative is [1998.346.139] [Chris Morton 16/4/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [21/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]