Nuer man clearing garden

Nuer man clearing garden
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
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1998.346.340.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 54 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.340
Previous Other Number:
?A168


Accession Number:
1998.346.340.1
Description:
A man on his knees in a garden area clearing tufts of grass in preparation for sowing a late millet crop, sometime around September. Cultivation, along with fishing, was considered a subsidiary but necessary activity by the cattle keeping Nuer.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Jonglei ?Upper Nile
Group:
Nuer Lou
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XIb (facing page 84) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'b. Clearing Millet garden for late sowing (Lou)' [Chris Morton 5/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Field
Activity:
Soil Preparation
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 - "A168"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [5/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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