Nuer homestead

58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.345.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VII.95

Previous Other Number:

5 [1]

Accession Number:

1998.355.345.1

Description:

Looking across a kraal with a number of tethered cattle and a byre (luak) with a woman sitting at the entrance. Facing the camera is an ox with dark body and white face showing the training of the left horn across the muzzle, called ma gut. This training was carried out by initiated youths on their favourite beast for aesthetically pleasing affects. In contrast to his two earlier fieldwork visits when photographing cattle was viewed suspiciously by the Nuer, Evans-Pritchard took numerous record images of them during his later field trips.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer Western Jikany

Notes:

There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 5 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 5 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content. [CM 26/10/2007]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Settlement , Animal Husbandry , Shelter

Keyword:

Building Animals , Animal Cattle

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 VII, ms ink] - 95. Cattle in kraal

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [6/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]