Nuer giraffe trap
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
slight Sulphide staining right hand side [7/89 EE]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.18
Previous Other Number:
02 1
Accession Number:
1998.355.507.2
Description:
A large giraffe trap consisting of a 'wheel' of spikes in which the animal's foot would become caught.
It is being held aloft by a length of fibre from a stick in a courtyard with a woven grass fence surrounding it.
In other images it is clear that this was a courtyard fence at a mission or government property, most likely at Nasir.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nasir
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Hunting , Colonial
Keyword:
Trap , [Animal Giraffe] , Mission
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] - 18. giraffe-trap
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 1" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/18"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 18. giraffe-trap
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 1" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/18"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [3/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
