Nuer youth praising ox

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.2.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.4

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.2.2

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] - 4. Twaring - Karlual

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 W. Nuer [numerous printer's marks]" & print front border ms ink "NUER I/4"

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]