Nuer homestead
97 x 72 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.52
Previous Other Number:
B4 (76 3)
Accession Number:
1998.346.52.2
Description:
A view across the cleared area of a village homestead (gol) with cattle lying down in the middle ground and a cattle byre (luak) and other huts visible beyond.
In the foreground is a firescreen (buor) against which a cooking-fire is made.
Often these firescreens incorporated three humps on the top, and were a symbol of a woman's status as a wife and mother of a household.
Sacrifices were often made near to the buor of the homestead.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jonglei Upper Nile
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Shelter , Fire , Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Village , Building Animals , Animal Cattle , Windbreak
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)"] - 52. Cattle, fire screen, and section of village. (L.) [Large size] (B.4)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "B4 76/3 52 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 52. Cattle, fire screen, and section of village. (L.) [Large size] (B.4)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "B4 76/3 52 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 1/4/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
