Nuer man
100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.80
Previous Other Number:
31 4
Accession Number:
1998.346.80
Description:
A full-length profile portrait of a man carrying several (?horn or ebony-pointed) spears, wearing armrings of metal and leather as well as earrings.
This image was published in 1933 with the caption Lek Tribesman, which suggests that this man was photographed during Evans-Pritchard's fieldwork among the Leek of the Bahr-el-Ghazal River area (Yoinyang) in 1930.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Yoinyang
Group:
Nuer ?Leek
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate I Figure 1 (facing page 2) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article
Nuer: Tribe and Clan
, Sudan Notes and Records, XVIII, 1935, with the caption 'Lek Tribesman' [Chris Morton 23/3/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Weapon , Ornament
Keyword:
Spear , Ornament Arm , Ornament Head
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)"] - 80. Male type. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "31/4 80 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 80. Male type. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "31/4 80 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 6/4/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
