Nuer girl with baby

Nuer girl with baby
84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.349.1 - Negative film nitrate , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VIII.4
Previous Other Number:
44 2 (A122)


Accession Number:
1998.355.349.2
Description:
A full length portrait of an adolescent girl wearing a head band ornament holding a baby on her hip. The baby is evidently frightened of Evans-Pritchard and is reaching out to another person out of frame, with another girl laughing behind them. This image was taken in 1935, at Yakwach on the Sobat River where a section of the Lou tribe resided during the height of the dry season.
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:
Physical Anthropology , Child Care , Body Language
Keyword:
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 VIII, ms ink] - 4. Girl with baby

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "44 2 A122" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VIII/4"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [8/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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