Nuer cattle camp
40 x 30 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.21.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
1998.346.21.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.21
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.346.21.1
Description:
Ash-covered youths at a dry season cattle camp (wec) with tethered oxen sitting near to a fenced enclosure, and a cattle byre (luak) visible beyond.
Evans-Pritchard notes that the ox in the foreground is rolnyang, which probably refers to a combination of white shoulder and forelegs (rol) with one horn trained across its face (nyang).
In the far distance is what appears to be a river, possibly the Sobat.
It was common as the dry season progressed for such camps to be sited next to permanent rivers as water became scarce.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei
Group:
Nuer Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Shelter , Settlement
Keyword:
Cattle Camp , Windbreak , Animal Cattle , 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)"] - 21. Cattle camp. (ox: rolnyang ) (S.) [Small size]
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 21. Cattle camp. (ox: rolnyang ) (S.) [Small size]
Other Information:
In The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940) page 44-45, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that '..a white shoulder and foreleg (rol) may be combined with ...
a brindled ox with one horn trained across its face is a gut nyang, &c.' [Chris Morton 23/3/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
