Nuer cattle camp milking
40 x 30 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.8.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
1998.346.8.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.8
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.346.8.1
Description:
Women preparing for milking at a dry season cattle camp (wec) next to a large river, probably the Sobat.
This would suggest the camp to be Yakwach where Evans-Pritchard spent 3 months in 1931 among the Lou Nuer.
The woman in the foreground stands with two milking gourds next to a number of tethered calves.
Another woman with a gourd is walking away, possibly following an untethered calf to its dam, who will then be milked, the calf being allowed to return to feed afterwards.
Milking is performed in the morning and evening by women, girls and unitiated boys.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River ?Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Lou
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XXIIIa (facing page 216) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Nuer
(Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'a.
Section of camp kraal (Lou)' [Chris Morton 18/3/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Food and Drink
Keyword:
Cattle Camp , Animal Cattle , Vessel Gourd
Activity:
Milking
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)"] - 8. Woman with milk gourds in cattle camp. (S.) [small size]
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 8. Woman with milk gourds in cattle camp. (S.) [small size]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [17/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
