Nuer youth at mission
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.765.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.765.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XVI.27
Previous Other Number:
28 3 (A196)
Accession Number:
1998.355.765.1
Description:
A head and shoulders portrait of an initiated youth wearing a white body cloth, standing close to the 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] - 27. Youth
Note on negative ms ink - "A196"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XVI, ms ink] - 27. Youth
Note on negative ms ink - "A196"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [7/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
