Nuer courtyard

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VIII.26

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.360.2

Description:

Looking across a fenced homestead courtyard with a raised platform for drying crops and a long basket and in the foreground a large 'humped' buor or firescreen, used for lighting cooking fires next to as well as some ritual ceremonies.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler

Group:

Nuer ?Leek Karlual

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Ritual , Fire , Domestic Life , Basketry

Keyword:

Fire Accessory , Basket , Storage Crop

Activity:

Ritual Activity

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] - 26. Drying platform, basket & buor

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 Ler" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VIII/26"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [9/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]