Nuer ox with trained horn
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.797.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.797.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XVI.89
Previous Other Number:
4 [2]
Accession Number:
1998.355.797.1
Description:
A profile of an impressive ox in Western Nuerland with a trained left horn curving over its muzzle (known as ma gut), a process carried out by by Nuer men by cutting away at one side of the horn on their favourite beasts, for aesthetically pleasing effects.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer
Notes:
There are 18 Rolleiflex exposures labeled as film number '4' – comparison of the number 4s on the print reverse however shows that they fall into two sets of nine negatives, the gorot series and this series.
[CM 19/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
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] - 89. magud ox
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XVI, ms ink] - 89. magud ox
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [9/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
