A Nuer dance
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.271.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.271.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VI.47
Previous Other Number:
64 3 (A144)
Accession Number:
1998.355.271.1
Description:
A group of men with spears, one with ash decoration on his legs, dance past the camera over two long poles, with the Sobat River in the background.
The dancers are Lou men of Yakwach camp which Evans-Pritchard revisited in 1935.
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:
Dance , Social Life
Keyword:
Spear
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
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 VI, ms ink] - 47. Dancing
Note on negative ms ink - "A144"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book VI, ms ink] - 47. Dancing
Note on negative ms ink - "A144"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [30/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
