Nuer cattle grazing

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.138.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

blue crop line across bottom [Chris Morton 7/6/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.III.78

Previous Other Number:

6 [2]

Accession Number:

1998.355.138.2

Description:

A number of cattle grazing on a ridge in western Nuerland. Evans-Pritchard spent around 7 weeks in the area during 1936, mostly in the Leek Karlual village of Nyueny.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer Leek Karlual

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XXIa (facing page 200) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'a. Cattle grazing on ridge (Leek)' [Chris Morton 17/5/2004]

Notes:

There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 6 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 6 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:

Topography , Animal Husbandry

Keyword:

Animal Cattle

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] - 78. Cattle grazing

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "6 W. Nuer Nuer XI 21(a)"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [7/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]