Nuer men
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
faded [EE 2/87]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VIII.88
Previous Other Number:
71
Accession Number:
1998.355.391.2
Description:
Looking towards a man wearing the metal arm badge of the Chief's Police (right shoulder, less visible than in another image), with a rectilinear building in the background and a tall post with a sign above it.
The native police force was recruited from 1927 to assist with the enforcement of judgements made at local chief's courts, which were also augmented at this time, a policy forcefully pushed through by C.
A.
Willis who became governor of Upper Nile Province in 1926.
Evans-Pritchard arrived at Adok on 1st October 1936 after making a survey of the Luo of Kenya.
He then moved on to spend most of his time among the Leek.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Adok
Group:
Nuer Dok
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Insignia , Colonial , Shelter
Keyword:
Building Official
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] - 88. Man at Adok
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "71 Adok" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VIII/88"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book VIII, ms ink] - 88. Man at Adok
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "71 Adok" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VIII/88"
Other Information:
Willis's establishment of a Nuer police force in the Upper Nile is discussed in D.
Johnson's Nuer Prophets (Clarendon, Oxford, 1994) pp.
184-6.
Percy Coriat, a D.C.
in the Sudan in the 1920s-30s also noted that 'Chief's Police start and end on 10 pt.
per month pay plus a red armlet.
They are given a toga of cloth as they are inclined to be shy if in Malakal.' (D.
Johnson (ed.), Governing the Nuer: Document by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography 1923-31 (JASO, Oxford 1993) p.76.
[Chris Morton 13/7/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [13/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
