Portrait of a Nuer man

58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.36.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 54 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.71

Previous Other Number:

1 (12)

Accession Number:

1998.355.36.1

Description:

An upper body portrait of a man leaning against his spear, with keloid patterns on his abdomen, chest and arms. He is also wearing a band across his hair with an ornament on the front.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile

Group:

Nuer Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Body Art

Keyword:

Body Art Skin , 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 I, ms ink] - 71. Man, Lou

Note on negative ms ink - "12"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [21/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]