Portrait of Nuer youths
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.424.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.424.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IX.53
Previous Other Number:
7 [2]
Accession Number:
1998.355.424.1
Description:
Two initiated youths stand to the right of the frame looking at the camera, with a lantern on a stake visible just beyond near an ox being led by another youth, near the river landing stage, where a river steamer is moored.
Evans-Pritchard arrived on 1st October 1936 after making a survey of the Luo of Kenya.
He then moved on to spend most of his time among the Leek.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Adok
Group:
Nuer Dok
Notes:
There appears to be three Rolleiflex films identified as film 7, which I have identified according to differences in notation on the print reverse as well as image content.
[CM 29/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Navigation , Lighting
Keyword:
Lamp , Boat
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 IX, ms ink] - 53. Youths at Adok
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IX, ms ink] - 53. Youths at Adok
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [16/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
