Nuer youth and boys

84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.12.1 - Negative film nitrate , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.24

Previous Other Number:

41 3

Accession Number:

1998.355.12.2

Description:

An upper body portrait of an initiated youth carrying a spear with ornaments around his forehead and neck, with boys behind him looking on at the camera. Evans-Pritchard spent some 4 weeks in 1935 among the Eastern Jikany tribes living at the mouth of the Nyanding River.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - A manipulated version of this image with the figures to the right of the youth painted out is reproduced as Plate VII (facing page 172) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's Nuer Religion (Oxford University Press 1974 [1957]) with the caption 'Youth and boy'. [Chris Morton 18/5/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Ornament

Keyword:

Spear , 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 1966.27.1-16 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 I, ms ink] - 24. Youth - E. Jikany

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 3 [printer's marks] Please paint out carefully over shaded part" & ms ink print front "NUER I/24"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [18/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]