Nuer cattle and children
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
blue crop line across bottom [Chris Morton 7/6/2004]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.III.84
Previous Other Number:
4 [2]
Accession Number:
1998.355.140.2
Description:
A number of tethered cattle sitting at a homestead's cattlepen in western Nuerland, with several children standing next to them, one of them sitting on one.
Evans-Pritchard spent around 7 weeks in the area during 1936, mostly in the Leek Karlual village of Nyueny, but states that he arrived at Adok on 1st October of that year.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Dok
Notes:
There are 18 Rolleiflex exposures labeled as film number '4' – comparison of the number 4s on the print reverse however shows that they fall into two sets of nine negatives, the gorot series and this series.
[CM 19/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Child Care
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] - 84. Cattle
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 Dok Nuer kraal"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book III, ms ink] - 84. Cattle
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 Dok Nuer kraal"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [7/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
