Nuer youth praising ox
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.2.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 54 mm )
1998.355.2.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 54 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.I.3
Previous Other Number:
3
Accession Number:
1998.355.2.1
Description:
An upper body full face portrait of a youth (?identified as Twaring) singing in praise of his favourite ox, with arms raised holding a club in imitation of its horns.
He seems to also have a section of dotted scarification on the left side of his chest.
Evans-Pritchard spent about seven weeks in total in Nuer Leek country, during Oct-Nov 1936, mostly at Nyueny village among the Karlual section.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village
Group:
Nuer Leek Karlual
NamedPerson:
?Twaring
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VII (facing page 84) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer
(Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990 [1951])
with the caption 'A youth singing in praise of his ox.
His arms are raised in imitation of its horns.' [Chris Morton 17/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Body Art , Body Language
Keyword:
Club , Body Art Skin
Activity:
Gesturing Hand
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] - 3. Twaring - Karlual
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book I, ms ink] - 3. Twaring - Karlual
Other Information:
I have assumed that the word Twaring is a personal name, but there is a slight possibility that it is a place name.
[Chris Morton 17/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [17/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
