Austrian Count in Evans-Pritchard's tent

100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.127

Previous Other Number:

31 7 (4)

Accession Number:

1998.346.127.2

Description:

A man wearing a pith helmet and smoking a pipe sitting in a camp chair under the canopy of Evans-Pritchard's tent with a map open on the table in front of him. He is identified as an Austrian Count. Although this might suggest that he could well be the Austro-Hungarian noble László Almásy (1895-1951) who made several trips through Sudan in motor vehicle during this period, it seems that he was in Sudan in 1929, before Evans-Pritchard's Nuer fieldwork. The co-incidence is strong, but there are also differences in appearance, which seems to point to another Austrian Count.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1931

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei

Group:

European Austrian

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Shelter , Furniture Dwelling , Narcotic

Keyword:

Tent , Pipe

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 1966.27.17 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled. (some missing). Nos. 1 - 213. (prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of prints each in separate envelope. Nos. 1 - 213. (negatives in 1966.27.17.)

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 127. Austrian count in my tent. (L.) [large size]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "31/7 127 "

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [15/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]