Portrait of Nuer girls

Portrait of Nuer girls
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.103.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.III.8
Previous Other Number:
8 [3]


Accession Number:
1998.355.103.2
Description:
A three-quarter length portrait of two girls wearing bead waist strings. The smiling girl to the right is holding a page from a printed book, perhaps just given to her by Evans-Pritchard, her hand being supported from below by the girl next to her. Beyond are two square objects, perhaps bundles of paper or sitting mats. The girls are described as Karlual - being that section of the Nuer Leek amongst whom Evans-Pritchard spent 5 weeks at Nyueny village in 1936.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village
Group:
Nuer Leek Karlual
Notes:
There would seem to be three Rolleiflex films identified as no. 8 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 8 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content. [CM 26/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament , Writing , Body Language
Keyword:
Ornament Body , Book
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 1966.27.1-16 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Sixteen negative albums containing negatives and prints of photographs taken by donor during field-work. All listed in albums. Added Accession Book Entry - [p. 98 in right hand column, in pencil] Catalogue room.

Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book III, ms ink] - 8. Girls (Karlual)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "8 W. Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/8"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [26/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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