Nuer man holding a restless cow
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:
1998.355.131.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) )
1998.355.131.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.III.63
Previous Other Number:
64 (A183)
Accession Number:
1998.355.131.1
Description:
A man with a club under his arm holding the tether of a cow being milked, looking towards other men out of frame to the left.
This man can also be seen in other images of a sheep sacrifice at Yakwach.
It was considered ritually dangerous for men to milk a cow unless no women or children were available, such as on a journey.
Although Evans-Pritchard captioned this image as being taken among the Gaajok, it is in fact the Lou cattle camp of Yakwac which he revisited in 1935.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 July
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Lou
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as the Frontispiece in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Nuer
(Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Section of homestead and kraal (Eastern Gaajok)' [Chris Morton 24/5/2004]
Research publication - Both the book plate spread (Figure 1, page 326) and the plate (Figure 19, page 336) are reproduced in B. Wolbert 'The Anthropologist as Photographer: the Visual Construction of Ethnographic Authority', Visual Anthropology , 2000, Vol 13, pp. 321-343. It is also reproduced (Figure 2, page 7) (and Wolbert's analysis criticised) in Christopher Morton, 'The Anthropologist as Photographer: Reading the Monograph and Reading the Archive', Visual Anthropology , 2005, Vol 18 (4) pp.1-17.
Research publication - Both the book plate spread (Figure 1, page 326) and the plate (Figure 19, page 336) are reproduced in B. Wolbert 'The Anthropologist as Photographer: the Visual Construction of Ethnographic Authority', Visual Anthropology , 2000, Vol 13, pp. 321-343. It is also reproduced (Figure 2, page 7) (and Wolbert's analysis criticised) in Christopher Morton, 'The Anthropologist as Photographer: Reading the Monograph and Reading the Archive', Visual Anthropology , 2005, Vol 18 (4) pp.1-17.
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Weapon
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Club , Cattle Camp
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 1966.27.1-16 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] - 63. Kraal [added ms ink] section of [Kraal] & homestead
Note on negative ms ink - "A183"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book III, ms ink] - 63. Kraal [added ms ink] section of [Kraal] & homestead
Note on negative ms ink - "A183"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [2/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
