Nuer fishing

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.260.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

slight stain right hand side [2/12/86 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VI.24

Previous Other Number:

64 4 (A177)

Accession Number:

1998.355.260.2

Description:

Looking towards two men in a dug-out canoe on the wide river, one holding a long harpoon. In 1935 Evans-Pritchard spent some four weeks at Mancom village at the mouth of the Nyanding River with the Gaajok and also revisited Yakwach cattle camp further down the Sobat.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935 July

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach

Group:

Nuer Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Navigation , Transport , Fishing

Keyword:

Rivers & Streams , Boat , Harpoon

Activity:

Fishing

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 VI, ms ink] - 24. Sobat(?) River

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "64 4 A177" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VI/24"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [29/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]