Birdlife in Nuerland

Birdlife in Nuerland
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VI.58
Previous Other Number:
1 (5)


Accession Number:
1998.355.276.2
Description:
Looking across a floodplain towards a group of large wading birds in the distance, probably in a swamp in eastern Nuerland. Aside from documenting the natural environment in which the Nuer lived, birds were an interest of Evans-Pritchard's throughout his life.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Topography , Vegetation , Fauna
Keyword:
Animal Bird
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] - 58. Marsh birds

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "1 (5)" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VI/58"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [30/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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