Birdlife in Nuerland

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.665.1 - 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.30

Previous Other Number:

7 (72)

Accession Number:

1998.355.665.2

Description:

Two large birds in an open area of ground, one just taking off. To the left can be seen the hut of a homestead. The location is noted as Pathai (probably modern Fathai) on the road from Akobo, the route that Evans-Pritchard seems to have followed to western Nuerland in 1936 after completing a survey of the Luo in Kenya.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Fathai

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Fauna

Keyword:

Animal Bird

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] - 30. village

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "7 72 Pathai" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/30"

Recorder:

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