Nuer men clearing sudd

64 x 41 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.50.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.50

Previous Other Number:

16 (115)

Accession Number:

1998.346.50.1

Description:

A group of men standing on a floating bed of vegetation in a river known as sudd (from Arabic sadda, to obstruct). They may be clearing this vegetation from the river, in order to prevent it blocking the river and flooding nearby grazing land or camping ground.

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:

Vegetation

Keyword:

Rivers & Streams

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)"] - 50. Male types (S.) [small size] (115)

Note on negative ms ink - "115"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [31/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]