Nuer youth hair decoration

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.658.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Silver sulphide staining left hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIV.16

Previous Other Number:

41 5

Accession Number:

1998.355.658.2

Description:

Looking down at an initiated youth sitting cross-legged on the ground with a fireplace in the background. He is wearing a European comb on a chain attached to a giraffe-hair necklace, and has his hair plastered with dung ash into a single horn-like projection at the front, decorated with dark lines. Such plastering was part of the process of dying the hair a reddish tinge. It was almost certainly taken during July 1935 whilst Evans-Pritchard spent 4 weeks at the mouth of the Nyanding River among the Gaajok, especially at Mancom village, the home of his servant Tiop-Lier.

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 , Social Life

Keyword:

Hair , Ornament Neck

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 XIV, ms ink] - 16. Youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 5" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/16"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [27/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]