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:
1998.355.542.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.542.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.91
Previous Other Number:
02
Accession Number:
1998.355.542.1
Description:
Several youths (one with a feather head ornament) holding spears stand in the foreground whilst a large number of other dancers are gathered beyond.
Dances were 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 , Ornament
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Ornament Head
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] - 91. youths
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 91. youths
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [5/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
