Nuer youth with spear

84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.11.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.21

Previous Other Number:

28 5 (A213)

Accession Number:

1998.355.11.1

Description:

A full length portrait of a youth carrying a spear with a protective tip and hair shaved at the temples, standing next to a path in a grassy plain, with other youths walking towards him. The youth is squinting since the sun is directly behind the camera. Evans-Pritchard spent some 4 weeks in 1935 among the Eastern Jikany tribes who live around Nasir.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nasir

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Toilet

Keyword:

Spear , Hair

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 1966.27.1-16 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Sixteen negative albums containing negatives and prints of photographs taken by donor during field-work. All listed in albums. Added Accession Book Entry - [p. 98 in right hand column, in pencil] Catalogue room.

Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book I, ms ink] - 21. Boys - E. Jikany

Note on negative ms ink - "A213" [This is probably a Kodak negative] [Chris Morton 18/5/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [18/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]