Nuer homestead

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.IV.94

Previous Other Number:

5 [1]

Accession Number:

1998.355.195.2

Description:

A slightly blurred image looking across a homestead yard in western Nuerland, probably in Nyueny village where Evans-Pritchard spent five out of seven weeks research in 1936, with tethered cattle standing in the foreground with a pile of swept detritus nearby. On the far side of the yard is a sleeping hut of the household, and to left some people sitting behind a windbreak.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer ?Leek Karlual

Notes:

There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 5 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 5 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:

Settlement , Shelter , Animal Husbandry

Keyword:

Building House , 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 IV, ms ink] - 94. kraal

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 W. Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IV/94"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [17/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]