Nuer girls

Nuer girls
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.182.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IV.68
Previous Other Number:
3


Accession Number:
1998.355.182.2
Description:
A group of Nuer girls on what looks like a dance-ground, with two older girls beating a long drum propped next to a pole. In another image the people are described as Jikul, a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among the Western Nuer.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jikul country
Group:
Nuer Jikul
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Social Life , Music
Keyword:
Musical Instrument Drum
Activity:
Performing
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 IV, ms ink] - 68. girls

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IV/68"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [15/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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