Nuer fishing

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.478.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.X.60

Previous Other Number:

8 (89)

Accession Number:

1998.355.478.2

Description:

Looking across the lake with youths scattered in the water using long harpoons to fish, providing essential dry season nutrition.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Lake Faddoi

Group:

Nuer Lou

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - A heavily cropped version is reproduced as Plate XXIIb (facing page 210) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Fishing in Lake Fadio (Lou)'

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Fishing , Topography

Keyword:

Rivers & Streams , Harpoon

Activity:

Fishing

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 X, ms ink] - 60. Fishing in Lake Fadoi

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "8 89 Fadoi [numerous printer's marks]" & print front border ms ink - "NUER X/60"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [29/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]