Evans-Pritchard's Nuer cook
100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.61
Previous Other Number:
09
Accession Number:
1998.346.61
Description:
A head and shoulders full face portrait of an initiated male youth, identified as Tiop, Evans-Pritchard's cook, who was an Eastern Jikany tribesman with Dinka ancestry.
He is wearing a striped white shirt and a neck ornament, with what looks like a feather coming from his hair at the back.
Evans-Pritchard probably first engaged Tiop as a servant during 1931.
This photograph was published in 1933 and describes him as a Lou tribesman.
However, Evans-Pritchard subsequently spent a month in 1935 at Tiop's home village of Mancom at the mouth of the Nyanding River, and notes that this was a Jikany village and not Lou.
I have therefore assumed that he revised his understanding of Tiop's tribal identity in light of this later fieldwork.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River ?Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok
NamedPerson:
Tiop
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate I Figure 2 (facing page 2) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article
Nuer: Tribe and Clan
, Sudan Notes and Records, XVIII, 1935, with the caption 'My cook Tiop, Lou tribesman of Dinka descent' [Chris Morton 23/3/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Hair
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)"] - 61. Tiop. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "09 61 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 61. Tiop. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "09 61 "
Other Information:
Archive note - The negative for this print is missing, presumably never donated since other negatives relating to images published in Sudan Notes & Records are also missing.
[Chris Morton 5/4/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 5/4/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
