Atuot youth dancing

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.641.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

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

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIII.82

Previous Other Number:

4 [2]

Accession Number:

1998.355.641.2

Description:

A youth jumps high with arms outstretched. The image is described as Atuot dancing, which suggests that this youth is an Atuot that Evans-Pritchard met during his fieldwork in Western Nuerland in 1936, and who is demonstrating an Atuot dance gesture for the camera. The Atuot are linguistically related to the Nuer, living some distance to the south among the Dinka, and having taken on many Dinka cultural patterns.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Atuot

Notes:

There are 18 Rolleiflex exposures labeled as film number '4' – comparison of the number 4s on the print reverse however shows that they fall into two sets of nine negatives, the gorot series and this series. [CM 19/10/2007]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance

Activity:

Dancing

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] - 82. dance

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 Atwot dancing" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/82"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [26/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]