Bahr-el-Ghazal swamp

98 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.369.1 - Negative film nitrate , (98 x 75 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.63a

Previous Other Number:

C7 (76 2)

Accession Number:

1998.346.369.2

Description:

The Bahr-el-Ghazal River with its low banks and consequently marshy land either side which becomes flooded quickly in the rains. Evans-Pritchard was based on the river for the early part of his first field trip in 1930, before moving eastwards to Lou country.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1930

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Bahr-el-Ghazal

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Topography

Keyword:

Rivers & Streams

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)"] - 63. Bahr-el-Ghazal swamps. (L.) [large size] (C.6)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "C6 76/2 63"

Other Information:

This negative and print were originally catalogued as 63a, but since they are a separate (although similar) image to 63 I have renumbered them at the end of the EP.N. series. [Chris Morton 14/5/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [14/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]