Nuer girl with baby
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:
1998.355.349.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))
1998.355.349.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VIII.3
Previous Other Number:
44 2 (A122)
Accession Number:
1998.355.349.1
Description:
A full length portrait of an adolescent girl wearing a head band ornament holding a baby on her hip.
The baby is evidently frightened of Evans-Pritchard and is reaching out to another person out of frame, with another girl laughing behind them.
This image was taken in 1935, at Yakwach on the Sobat River 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 , Child Care , Body Language
Keyword:
Ornament Head
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 VIII, ms ink] - 3. Girl with baby
Note on negative ms ink - "A122"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book VIII, ms ink] - 3. Girl with baby
Note on negative ms ink - "A122"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [8/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
