Nuer youth wearing armrings
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining right hand side (acid migration) [7/89 EE]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.24
Previous Other Number:
43 3 (A43)
Accession Number:
1998.355.509.2
Description:
A youth wearing thiau armrings on his left arm and with hair ash-plastered, holding the pole of Evans-Pritchard's tent awning or canvas shade.
Arm ring binding was done for some months or even a year or two, and is accompanied by swelling, sores and pain, and renders the arm useless for the period.
During the elaborate telling of compliments to a woman during courtship or at dances, the youth ran a metal ring up and down the arm-rings to produce a sound.
He is also wearing a European comb as a neck ornament.
Evans-Pritchard stresses in his analysis of thiau as a left-horn imitation that the left arm is only ever used, but in this instance the right arm is bound.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 July
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Ornament , Shelter , Toilet
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Tent , Hair
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] - 24. man
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 3 A43" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/24"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 24. man
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 3 A43" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/24"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [3/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
