Nuer harp
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.378.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.378.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VIII.61
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.355.378.1
Description:
A full length portrait of a man with ash-covered hair and a club under his arm, playing a harp with a large gourd resonator.
Evans-Pritchard spent about 4 weeks among the Eastern Jikany living at the mouth of the Nyanding River in 1935.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile
Group:
Nuer Eastern Jikany
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Music , Toilet , Shelter
Keyword:
Musical Instrument String , Hair
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] - 61. Youth playing harp
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book VIII, ms ink] - 61. Youth playing harp
Other Information:
The same man can be seen in 1998.355.10, which is reproduced as Plate VI (facing page 84) of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990 [1951]) with the caption 'A married woman, wearing skirt.
In the background a man plays on a harp'.
[Chris Morton 13/7/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [13/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
