Nuer boy
40 x 30 mm | Print 35mm contact
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.176
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.346.176.2
Description:
A head and shoulders portrait of a boy identified as Tot, wearing a bead necklace.
Tot was a member of Evans-Pritchard's household during his fieldwork in 1931, but died only a few years later in 1936, it was said due to having milked a cow after his initiation.
Beyond can be seen a beehive-style hut and windbreak, indicating that the photograph was taken at a dry season cattle camp (wec).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei
Group:
Nuer Lou
NamedPerson:
Tot
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology
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)"] - 176. Tot. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 176 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 176. Tot. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 176 "
Other Information:
On page 217 E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article Nuer: Tribe and Clan, Sudan Notes and Records, XVIII, 1935, he notes that 'A Nuer boy, Tot, was a member of my household in 1931.
When I returned in 1935 I learned that he was sick with a swollen belly, and in 1936 that he had died in Malakal hospital.
The reason given for his death was that after initiation he had milked a cow secretly at night in a byre and drunk its milk.' [Chris Morton 5/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [19/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
