Moro men

103 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver

Condition:

Silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.M.18

Previous Other Number:

97; handlist no. 317

Accession Number:

1998.345.18

Description:

A three-quarter length portrait of a group of men wearing loincloths as well as arm, neck and head ornaments. The term Moro was frequently applied to several groups of the Amadi district, but later - principally after Evans-Pritchard's fieldwork of 1927 - became restricted to the Moro Meza, Kederu, Oggi (Uggi) and Endri.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1927

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria ?Amadi District

Group:

Moro

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Ornament

Keyword:

Ornament Arm , Ornament Head , Ornament Neck

Documentation:

Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]

Primary Documentation:

PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p. 98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S. SUDAN, DARFUNG. VARIOUS TRIBES. Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Moro"] - 317. group of men

Note on print reverse ms blue pencil "317" & ms pencil "Moro 97"

Notes on card mount ms pencil - "SSS overall 8.89"

Other Information:

A similar photograph taken by Evans-Pritchard (although apparently not in the collection) is reproduced as Plate La (facing page 484) in C.G. & B. Z. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of Nilotic Sudan (Routledge 1932), with the caption "Moro men". [Chris Morton 3/3/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 3/3/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]