Nuer cattle byre
40 x 30 mm | Print 35mm contact
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.181
Previous Other Number:
1
Accession Number:
1998.346.181.2
Description:
A well constructed cattle byre (luak) in a village homestead.
Such byres were constructed by making a wall of wooden stakes and by then joining together long branches to form rafters, which were then thatched.
The thatch of this byre has been tied together at the ends, possibly to stop cattle from eating the ends through the gaps in the stakes whilst housed inside at night.
In the right foreground can be seen a hut of the village type as well as what looks like a firescreen with its hearth filled with water, possibly after a shower of rain.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile ?Nyanding River ?Sobat River
Group:
Nuer ?Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Fire
Keyword:
Building Animals
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)"] - 181. Kraal. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "1 181 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 181. Kraal. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "1 181 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [20/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
