Nuer ox with spreading horns
208 x 155 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.368
Accession Number:
1998.346.368
Description:
A light coloured ox with magnifient spreading horns of a type known as wer.
This image was probably taken among the Eastern Jikany Nuer by F.
D.
Corfield, District Comissioner at Nasir on the Sobat River in Upper Nile Province during Evans-Pritchard's fieldwork.
Photographer:
Frank D. Corfield
Date of Photo:
1931-1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile
Group:
Nuer ?Eastern Jikany
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate I (facing page 4) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Nuer Religion
(Oxford University Press 1974 [1957]) with the caption 'Ox with spreading horns'.
[CM 2/9/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection. Probably given to Evans-Pritchard by Frank D. Corfield.
Class:
Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
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 - "[numerous printer's marks]"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "[numerous printer's marks]"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [12/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
