Nuer youth tying necklace

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.X.100

Previous Other Number:

41 5

Accession Number:

1998.355.498.2

Description:

A youth wearing head and arm ornaments (thiau arm rings) tying a giraffe-hair necklace at the back of a friend's neck. The photograph was taken during July 1935 whilst Evans-Pritchard spent 4 weeks at the mouth of the Nyanding River among the Jikany, especially at Mancom village, the home of his servant Tiop-Lier.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Ornament , Social Life

Keyword:

Ornament Arm , 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 X, ms ink] - 100. Dressing-hair

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 5" & print front border ms ink - "NUER X/100"

Other Information:

An image of the same youths fixing neck ornaments is reproduced as Plate I (facing page 8) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Youth (Eastern Gaajok) fastening giraffe-hair necklace on friend'

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [2/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]