Nuer homestead and grass firing

97 x 72 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.41.2 - Print gelatin silver , (97 x 72 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.41

Previous Other Number:

B8 (76 3)

Accession Number:

1998.346.41.1

Description:

Looking across a section of village homestead with a domed hut to the right and a raised grass store platform to the left. Beyond can be seen more huts on the horizon, with smoke from grass firing drifting across the sky. Nuer burn the grass at the height of the dry season (around December) so as produce new shoots for cattle to graze on and so help to sustain them in the drought.

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:

Settlement , Shelter , Fire

Keyword:

Building House

Activity:

Firing

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)"] - 41. Section of homestead. (L.) [Large size] (B.8)

Note on negative ms ink - "B" & mech. printed "8"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [25/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]