A Nuer dance

A Nuer dance
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.368.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VIII.42
Previous Other Number:
1


Accession Number:
1998.355.368.2
Description:
A boy holding a spear walking across a dance ground, with a smaller child beyond, and a male dancer to the right, probably dancing with a larger group. The boy is described as Jikul, a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among the Western Nuer.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Jikul
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Weapon , Physical Anthropology , Dance
Keyword:
Spear
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] - 42. boy

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "1 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VIII/42"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [9/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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