Portrait of a Nuer youth

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.28.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

slight staining right hand side 19/11/86 EE

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.56

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.28.2

Description:

An upper body full face portrait of a young man (wearing thiau arm-rings on the right arm in a previous image) wearing a European comb as a neck ornament, hanging from an elephant hair necklace. He also wears a beaded headband. Evans-Pritchard carried out fieldwork among the Eastern Jikany at the mouth of the Nyanding and on the Sobat River in 1935.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Ornament

Keyword:

Ornament Neck , Ornament Head

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 I, ms ink] - 56. Youth - Eastern Jikany

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83" & print front border ms ink - "NUER I/56"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [20/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]