Portrait of Nuer girls

Portrait of Nuer girls
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:
1998.355.14.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.I.27
Previous Other Number:
44 2 (A123)


Accession Number:
1998.355.14.1
Description:
A full length formalised portrait of an adolescent and younger girl wearing ornaments, with a cattle byre (luak) in the background. This image was probably taken in 1935, and on the Sobat River at Yakwach cattle camp where a section of the Lou tribe resided during the height of the dry season.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 July
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Body
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] - 27. Girls - Lou

Note on negative ms ink - "A123" [This is probably a Kodak negative] [Chris Morton 19/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [19/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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