Nuer ox

55 x 50 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.491.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 50 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.X.86

Previous Other Number:

83 2

Accession Number:

1998.355.491.2

Description:

A close-up of a humped ox being held by a tether, exhibiting the training of the left horn across the muzzle (ma gut). On initiation youths were given an ox by their father, from whom they took a name based upon its markings or other attributes. This name was then used by his age mates and gradually by others also. In contrast to his two earlier fieldwork visits when photographing cattle was viewed suspiciously by the Nuer, Evans-Pritchard took numerous record images of them during his later field trips. Based on the film number, this photograph was probably taken at Mancom village among the Gaajok.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Animal Husbandry

Keyword:

Animal Cattle

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] - 86. Ox

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83 2" & print front border ms ink - "NUER X/86"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [2/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]