Nuer ox
97 x 72 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.322.2 - Print gelatin silver , (97 x 72 mm)
1998.346.322.2 - Print gelatin silver , (97 x 72 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.322
Previous Other Number:
B6 (76 3)
Accession Number:
1998.346.322.1
Description:
A tethered ox at a cattle looking straight at the camera with upright horns.
The favourite ox of a man was the subject of his praise songs and from whom he took his ox-name on initiation and thereby his social identity as a man of the tribe.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1936
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:
Animal Husbandry
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.)
Note on negative ms ink - "B" & mech. printed "6"
Note on negative ms ink - "B" & mech. printed "6"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [4/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
