Nuer cattle camp

64 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.88.1 - Negative film nitrate , (64 x 40 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.88

Previous Other Number:

32 7 (34)

Accession Number:

1998.346.88.2

Description:

An ash-covered boy standing in a dry season cattle camp (wec) with a woman emerging from a beehive-shaped hut commonly constructed at camps. A small boy next to her stands at the doorway of another small hut covered with bundles of long grass. To the left are windscreens and several goats sitting on the ground. Tethering pegs for cattle are dotted around the courtyard area in the foreground. An image showing a dry season forest pool from the same film was published suggesting a location in Lou country.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei

Group:

Nuer Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Animal Husbandry , Shelter , Settlement

Keyword:

Cattle Camp , Windbreak , Animal Goat , Building House

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)"] - 88. Section of cattle camp. (S.) [Small size] (34)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "32/7 34 88 "

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [6/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]