Evans-Pritchard's camp in Nuerland

100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.60

Previous Other Number:

31 7 (12)

Accession Number:

1998.346.60.2

Description:

Evans-Pritchard's cook (wearing a white belt) bends over a fire holding a large spouted kettle of boiled water, with two Nuer youths looking on nearby. Evans-Pritchard's tent can be made out beyond to the right. In the left foreground is a pyramid-style bundle of grasses tied together, possibly to be used for renewing hut thatches. The cook with the white belt can be seen in another image of Evans-Pritchard's camp [1998.346.42]. The photograph format suggests that the image was taken during Evans-Pritchard's first fieldwork trip in 1930, and a location for this image of Pakur or Yoinyang.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1930

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Bahr-el-Ghazal Yoinyang or Pakur village

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Settlement , Shelter , Fire , Food and Drink

Keyword:

Tent , Fire Accessory , Cooking Accessory

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)"] - 60. My kitchen. (L.) [Large size]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "31/7 60 "

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 5/4/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]