Nuer girl grinding

55 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.558.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 40 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XII.24

Previous Other Number:

41 2

Accession Number:

1998.355.558.2

Description:

A kneeling girl grinding flour paste on a hardened mud base set at an angle to let the flour fall down onto a leather mat. Next to the grinding board are two large gourd vessels. Just beyond her is a woman smoking a pipe with a toddler attempting to join in. The location is possibly among the Gaajok at Mancom near the mouth of the Nyanding.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

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

Group:

Nuer ?Eastern Jikany Gaajok

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Domestic Life , Food and Drink , Vessel , Narcotic

Keyword:

Grinder , Vessel Gourd , Pipe

Activity:

Grinding , Smoking

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 XII, ms ink] - 24. girl grinding

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 2" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XII/24"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [31/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]