Nuer youths at mission

Nuer youths at mission
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.764.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XVI.26
Previous Other Number:
28 3 (A197)


Accession Number:
1998.355.764.2
Description:
A group portrait of boys wearing white body cloths and a variety of European clothing parts, such as a T-shirt, waist-coat and head-scarf, standing outside a thatched brick rectilinear building (probably the church) at the American Presbytarian Mission at Nasir. Evans-Pritchard visited the mission in both 1931 and 1935 and dedicated his Nuer monograph to the staff there in gratitude for their help during his fieldwork.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Nasir
Group:
Nuer ?Gaajok
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Colonial , Education
Keyword:
Textile , Mission , Building Religious
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 XVI, ms ink] - 26. Youths

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "28 3 A197" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XVI/26"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [7/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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