Nuer leopard-skin priest

Nuer leopard-skin priest
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.239


Accession Number:
1998.346.239
Description:
A full length portrait of a leopard-skin priest (Kuaar Muon) standing in the shade (of a hut?) [very dark image]. Over his shoulder can be seen Evans-Pritchard's tent, a different one without the awning used in earlier fieldwork. To the right is a cattle byre (luak), with eaves reaching almost to the ground. The leopard-skin priest was a ritual rather than political authority, and acted as arbiter in disputes and in ritual activities such as spirit possession and sacrifice.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 - 1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan]
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Ritual , Clothing Skin , Insignia
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.)

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [26/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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