Nuer mock combat at dance
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.III.82
Previous Other Number:
02 6
Accession Number:
1998.355.139.2
Description:
A large group at a dance with two youths in the foreground 'duelling' with spears in mock combat.
This sort of war play was a common feature of such dance gatherings where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other in mock running battles as a show of group prowess.
Dances were also significant occasions for courtship.
Other images of this dance are described as Jikul, a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among both the Western Jikany and Leek.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Western Jikany Jikul
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Dance , Weapon , Social Life
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Spear , Club
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
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] - 82. Dancing
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 6 W. Jikany" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/82"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book III, ms ink] - 82. Dancing
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 6 W. Jikany" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/82"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [7/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
