A Nuer dance
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.525.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.525.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.55
Previous Other Number:
02 8
Accession Number:
1998.355.525.1
Description:
A large number of dancers gathered together with men performing the jumping movement (rau) as well as kneeling and crouching, part of the mock combat using club and spear that is a feature of large dances.
In the foreground a man moves past the camera carrying an ambatch-wood parrying shield.
Dances were significant occasions for courtship as well as war play, where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other in mock running battles as a show of group prowess.
The people are described as Western Jikany and in related images as Jikul, the latter being a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among the Western Jikany.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Western Jikany Jikul
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Dance , Social Life , Weapon
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Spear , Shield
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
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] - 55. dancing
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 55. dancing
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [4/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
