Nuer courtyard

Nuer courtyard
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VIII.26
Previous Other Number:
2


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]
 
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