Portrait of Nuer girl

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.106.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

faded right hand side [26/11/86] EE

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.III.14

Previous Other Number:

5 [2]

Accession Number:

1998.355.106.2

Description:

A full length portrait of a smiling girl wearing ?feather decoration in her hair and lengths of string with bead terminals around her neck. She is described as Jikul which is lineage or clan name not associated with one tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country, but also elsewhere such as Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer Jikul

Notes:

There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 5 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 5 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

Keyword:

Ornament Hair , Ornament Neck

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] - 14. Girl - Jikul

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 W. Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/4"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [27/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]