A Nuer dance
55 x 42 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.700.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 42 mm )
1998.355.700.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 42 mm )
Condition:
Sulphide staining right hand side lower [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIV.100
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.355.700.2
Description:
Youths in the foreground run across a dance ground carrying spears, with others gathered in the background performing dance movements.
Dances, often accompanied by mock battles between villages, were a significant occasion for courtship among Nuer youth.
The people are described as Jikul, a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country where Evans-Pritchard conducted the bulk of his fieldwork in western Nuerland.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Jikul
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Dance , Weapon , Social Life
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Spear
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
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] - 100. dancing
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/100"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XIV, ms ink] - 100. dancing
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/100"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [31/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
