Nuer man with club
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.341.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.346.341.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.341
Previous Other Number:
8
Accession Number:
1998.346.341.2
Description:
A man standing with a club in his right hand looking down at a seated companion.
This image was published with a caption that points out that this image also shows a sandy ridge with cattle byres visible on the horizon.
Settlement was concentrated on such ridges to avoid seasonal flooding.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler
Group:
Nuer Dok
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VIII (facing page 68) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Nuer
(Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Sandy ridge with cattle byres on the horizon (Dok)' Also reproduced as Plate V (facing page 216) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article
Economic Life of the Nuer: Cattle
(Part 1),
Sudan Notes and Records
XX, No.3, 1937, with the caption 'Sandy ridge with homesteads in the background (Duk Country)'.
[Chris Morton 5/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Weapon , Settlement
Keyword:
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.)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "VIII 8 Ler"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "VIII 8 Ler"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [5/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
