Nuer orphans at mission

Nuer orphans at mission
105 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
before 1935
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.346


Accession Number:
1998.346.346
Description:
A group portrait of eight mostly young children wearing western clothing, standing next to the American Presbytarian Mission building at nasir. In the background is a water tower with a raised tank for piped water supplies. The children are identified as eight motherless children being cared for by Blanche Soule at the mission which Evans-Pritchard visited in 1931 and again in 1935, when he was presumably given the photograph.
Photographer:
?Blanche Cora Soule
Date of Photo:
- 1935 (before)
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Nasir
Group:
Nuer ?Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Clothing , Shelter
Keyword:
Building Religious
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 ink - "My eight Nuer motherless children" & [different hand] "Miss Soule (missionary)"

Other Information:
Blanche Cora Soule worked as a missionary at the American Presbytarian Mission at Nasir on the Sobat River at least until 1945. [Chris Morton 5/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [5/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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