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]