Nuer girl grinding

Nuer girl grinding
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.681.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIV.61
Previous Other Number:
43 3 (A42)


Accession Number:
1998.355.681.1
Description:
Outside the entrance to a hut a girl grinds grain for flour using a stone or wood hand tool and what looks like a curved wooden grinding block on which the flour falls away towards the front on to a piece of hide or other flat recepticle. Beyond can be seen a long basket for collecting crops and a thornwood fence to protect crops from cattle kept in the kraal.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 July
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Food and Drink , Domestic Life
Keyword:
Grinder , Fence
Activity:
Grinding
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] - 61. Girl grinding

Note on negative ms ink - "A42"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [31/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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