Nuer fishing

Nuer fishing
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.478.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.X.59
Previous Other Number:
8 (89)


Accession Number:
1998.355.478.1
Description:
Looking across the lake with youths scattered in the water using long harpoons to fish, providing essential dry season nutrition.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Lake Faddoi
Group:
Nuer Lou
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - A heavily cropped version is reproduced as Plate XXIIb (facing page 210) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Fishing in Lake Fadio (Lou)'
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Fishing , Topography
Keyword:
Rivers & Streams , Harpoon
Activity:
Fishing
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 X, ms ink] - 59. Fishing in Lake Fadoi

Note on negative ms ink - "89"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [29/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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