Nuer homestead
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.503.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.503.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.9
Previous Other Number:
43 4 (A105)
Accession Number:
1998.355.503.1
Description:
Looking towards cattle lying down in a kraal on raised ground with byres in the background, probably at Yakwach on the Sobat River, which Evans-Pritchard revisited in 1935.
Evans-Pritchard notes that this visit to the village was in the rainy season and that away from the raised mound to the rear of the village the swamps after rain virtually isolated the site.
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:
Settlement , Animal Husbandry , Shelter
Keyword:
Building Animals , 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 XI, ms ink] - 9. Kraal
Note on negative ms ink - "A105"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 9. Kraal
Note on negative ms ink - "A105"
Other Information:
A very similar image [1998.355.332], taken in quick succession is reproduced (cropped at base) as Plate VIb (facing page 224) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article Economic Life of the Nuer: Cattle (Part 1), Sudan Notes and Records XX, No.3, 1937, with the caption 'Kraal (Lou Country)', and reproduced from the same block as Plate VIIa (facing page 62) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Homesteads on mound (Lou)'.
[Chris Morton 2/8/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [2/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
