Nuer lavatory

Nuer lavatory
64 x 41 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.46.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.46
Previous Other Number:
32 1 (85)


Accession Number:
1998.346.46.1
Description:
A bell-shaped lavatory made from grass stems with horizontal stiffeners tied together at the top, set within a garden in the vicinity of a homestead (dhor). Such homesteads or hamlets were occupied by close agnatic kinsmen who would have shared such a lavatory shelter.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Pakur village
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Building , Garden
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)"] - 46. Lavatory (S.) [small size] (85)

Note on negative ms ink - "85"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [30/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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