Nuer dance drums

Nuer dance drums
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.329.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VII.64
Previous Other Number:
3


Accession Number:
1998.355.329.2
Description:
Men gathered for a dance in a homestead with two facing away from the camera beating narrow hide-covered drums (one short and one long) with a beater in the right hand. They are possibly looking towards other people arriving. The beating of drums accompanied dances in homesteads on certain occasions, such as marriage celebrations. They are described as Jikul which is lineage or clan name not associated with one tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country, but also elsewhere such as Western Jikany.
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:
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 VII, ms ink] - 64. drumming

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VII/64"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [5/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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