Portrait of a Nuer youth

Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.684.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Condition:
Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIV.68
Previous Other Number:
41 4


Accession Number:
1998.355.684.2
Description:
An upper body portrait of a youth wearing a white body cloth and neck ornaments, including a ?bone pendant. The white body cloth suggests that the youth may have been associated with the mission at Nasir. He seems to be sitting on a wall next to the river seen in other images from Nasir.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River ?Nasir
Group:
Nuer ?Eastern Jikany Gaajok
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament
Keyword:
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] - 68. youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 4" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/68"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [31/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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