Nuer youth and girls

84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.601.1 - Negative film nitrate , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))

Condition:

Silver sulphide staining right hand side + upper? [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIII.2

Previous Other Number:

41 3

Accession Number:

1998.355.601.2

Description:

A full length portrait of a youth with plastered hair standing with two young women wearing body cloths. The film number suggests a location of Mancom village among the Gaajok. Evans-Pritchard spent some 4 weeks in 1935 among the Eastern Jikany tribes living at the mouth of the Nyanding River.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

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

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Toilet , Clothing

Keyword:

Hair , Textile

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 XIII, ms ink] - 2. People

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 3" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/2"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [24/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]