Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
slight overall Sulphide staining [7/89 EE]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.2
Previous Other Number:
7 [2]
Accession Number:
1998.355.499.2
Description:
An upper body rear portrait of a man, wearing an ammunition belt and metal arm badge, probably the insignia of a Chief's Policeman, with a rectilinear building in the background, near the river landing stage at Adok, where Evans-Pritchard arrived on 1st October 1936.
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.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Adok
Group:
Nuer Dok
Notes:
There appears to be three Rolleiflex films identified as film 7, which I have identified according to differences in notation on the print reverse as well as image content.
[CM 29/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Shelter , Insignia , Weapon
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 XI, ms ink] - 2. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "7 Adok" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/2"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 2. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "7 Adok" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/2"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [2/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
