Holding Nuer cow
55 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IX.4
Previous Other Number:
43 1 (A64)
Accession Number:
1998.355.399.2
Description:
A man demonstrating a method of holding a cow's head, presumably whilst being milked by the woman visible crouching beside it.
He is holding the cow by a horn and by its nasal septum.
The photograph was probably taken in 1935 at Yakwach.
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:
Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Activity:
Milking
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 IX, ms ink] - 4. Method of holding cow.
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 1 A64" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IX/4"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IX, ms ink] - 4. Method of holding cow.
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 1 A64" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IX/4"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [15/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
