Nuer youths 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:
1998.355.778 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.778 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XVI.51
Previous Other Number:
[?28] (A226)
Accession Number:
1998.355.777
Description:
A three quarter length portrait of two initiated youths wearing neck and arm ornaments, the one to the left holding a club, standing near 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 , Colonial , Education , Ornament , Weapon
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Neck , Building Religious , Club
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] - 51. Youths (Nasser mission)
Note on negative ms ink - "A228"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XVI, ms ink] - 51. Youths (Nasser mission)
Note on negative ms ink - "A228"
Other Information:
The print originally indexed with this negative (XVI/52) is very similar but slightly different, and has a different film number.
I have therefore catalogued them separately as two distinct images.
[Chris Morton 7/9/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [7/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
