A Nuer dance

100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.151

Previous Other Number:

31 4 [frame 11]

Accession Number:

1998.346.151.2

Description:

A large number of young people gathered at a dance, with male youths jumping with spears. In the foreground is a homestead firescreen (buor) against which a cooking-fire is made. Often these firescreens incorporated three humps on the top, and were a symbol of a woman's status as a wife and mother of a household. Sacrifices were often made near to the buor of the homestead. Dances were more a feature of village life than cattle camps since people had more ready access to other social groups, and often accompanied ceremonies such as marriages. Such events were the main arena for courtship among Nuer youth, and often took the form of mock battles between village groups.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1931

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Yoinyang

Group:

Nuer ?Leek

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance , Fire

Keyword:

Dance Accessory

Activity:

Dancing

Event:

Dance

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)"] - 151. Dance. (L.) [Large size]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "31/4 151 "

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [16/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]