Portrait of a Nuer youth

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.5.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Residual chemical staining spot centre [AP 7/91] Blue crop line right hand side [Chris Morton 17/5/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.10

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.5.2

Description:

An upper body portrait of an ash-covered initiated youth in a homestead turning his head away from the camera. He is holding on to two sticks, one of which has a ?shell tip. He is described as a youth of the Karlual, one of the main sections of the Leek tribe of western Nuerland, and where Evans-Pritchard spent some 7 weeks, mostly at Nyueny village.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer Leek Karlual

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate I (facing page 84) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990 [1951]) with the caption 'A boy, clothed in ashes.' [Chris Morton 17/5/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Body Art

Keyword:

Staff , Body Art Skin

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 I, ms ink] - 10. Boy (youth) - Karlual

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "[numerous printer's marks] W. Nuer 9 [?faint number 3]" & print front ms ink "NUER I/10" [Chris Morton 17/5/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [17/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]