Portrait of a Nuer youth

Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.587.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XII.73
Previous Other Number:
9


Accession Number:
1998.355.587.1
Description:
An upper body portrait of a smiling youth turning towards the camera, his body and face covered with ashes that accent the gar initiation marks on his head. He wears a feather tucked into an armring and holds a decorated stick. The youth is probably a resident of Nyueny village in western Nuerland where Evans-Pritchard spent 5 weeks in 1936.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village
Group:
Nuer ?Leek Karlual
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Body Art , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Arm
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] - 73. Youth
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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