Nuer men with stylised hair
112 x 80 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
?1920s
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.203
Accession Number:
1998.346.203
Description:
A head and shoulders profile portrait of two Nuer Lou men holding spear and club, with their hair plastered with light coloured clay into a single horn pointing forwards.
The man to the left has a straight piece of wood or bone in a pierced ear, the man to the right a white feather.
This image was given or lent to Evans-Pritchard possibly by C.G.
Seigman and seems to have originated from Yuzbashi (i.e.
Captain) Talib Ismail, a sub-mamur in the Upper Nile Province administration at Akobo from 1920-27.
Photographer:
Talib Ismail
Date of Photo:
1921-7
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile
Group:
Nuer Lou
Notes:
Biographical Information - Talib Ismail is noted in
The Nuer
as the source for two reproduced images.
He was a Sudanese officer who served in Upper Nile Province as a sub-mamur at Akobo from 5 June 1920 to 1 November 1927.
The prints all have the same handwriting on the reverse which may be that of C.G.
Seligman who may have procured them in 1921-2 during travels in the region, and who used some of them in the volume
Pagan Tribes
of 1932.
Curiously they reproduced the images crediting E-P as the source, although E-P rectified this in his own monograph.
It is likely that Evans-Pritchard was given these Nuer prints by his supervisor Seligman.
See correspondence with Douglas Johnson in RDF [Chris Morton 23/4/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection. Probably given to Evans-Pritchard by C. G. & B. Z. Seligman.
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Toilet , Weapon
Keyword:
Hair , Spear , Club
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)"] - 203. Male types. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Law Nuers" [ie Lou Nuers] [Chris Morton 21/4/2004]
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 203. Male types. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Law Nuers" [ie Lou Nuers] [Chris Morton 21/4/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [21/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
