A Nuer woman cooking

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.121.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

faded right hand side [26/11/86 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.III.44

Previous Other Number:

83 2

Accession Number:

1998.355.121.2

Description:

A woman sits next to a large, lipped clay pot resting on a fire with buor windscreen, stirring the contents (probably millet or maize porridge) with a stirrer. On her lap is a large gourd vessel, probably containing the flour for the porridge which she is adding. Beyond her a small child stands by watching the activity. Tall millet stems growing in a garden surround the courtyard. Evans-Pritchard spent some 4 weeks in 1935 among the Gaajok tribe living at Mancom village at the mouth of the Nyanding River, the home village of his servant Tiop.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Food and Drink , Agriculture and Horticulture , Vessel , Pottery

Keyword:

Vessel Gourd , Vessel Pottery , Crop Millet , Fire Accessory

Activity:

Domestic Activity , Food Preparing

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 III, ms ink] - 44. Cooking (Mancom)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83 2" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/44"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [1/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]