Nuer flour grinding

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.479.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.X.62

Previous Other Number:

64 2 (A157)

Accession Number:

1998.355.479.2

Description:

Two women grinding flour outside a hut. The women to the left is a married woman, indicated by her skirt. The hut itself has gaps between the upright poles, suggesting that it was used for cooking in during the rains, which is when Evans-Pritchard carried out fieldwork in 1935. The grinding slabs themselves are made of baked earth and are angled downwards so that the flour falls onto a mat. To the left is a raised storage pole, with what may be strips of meat hanging down out of reach of animals.

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:

Food and Drink , Domestic Life , Shelter

Keyword:

Vessel Gourd , Building , Grinder

Activity:

Grinding

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] - 62. woman grinding

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "64 2 A157" & print front border ms ink - "NUER X/62"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [29/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]