Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IX.28
Previous Other Number:
3
Accession Number:
1998.355.411.2
Description:
A head and shoulders portrait of a youth wearing a body cloth and neck ornament standing in a maize garden, identified as Tiop, Evans-Pritchard's cook, who was probably first engaged as a servant by Evans-Pritchard during 1931.
A photograph of Tiop from this trip was published in 1933, describing him as a Lou tribesman.
However, Evans-Pritchard subsequently spent a month in 1935 at Tiop's home village of Mancom at the mouth of the Nyanding River, and notes that this was a Jikany village and not Lou.
I have therefore assumed that he revised his understanding of Tiop's tribal identity in light of this later fieldwork.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth)
Group:
Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok
NamedPerson:
Tiop
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Ornament , Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Textile , Ornament Head , Ornament Neck
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] - 28. Youth (Tiop)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IX/28"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IX, ms ink] - 28. Youth (Tiop)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IX/28"
Other Information:
The earlier photograph of Tiop [1998.346.61] is reproduced as Plate I Figure 2 (facing page 2) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article The Nuer: Tribe and Clan, in Sudan Notes and Records, XVIII, 1935, with the caption 'My cook Tiop, Lou tribesman of Dinka descent' [Chris Morton 16/7/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [16/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
