Portrait of Nuer youths

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.510.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Sulphide staining right hand side (acid migration) [7/89 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XI.26

Previous Other Number:

41 5

Accession Number:

1998.355.510.2

Description:

A full length group portrait of three initiated youths wearing ornaments. The youth in the middle is wearing a European comb as a neck ornament as well as thiau arm rings on his right arm. The youths are identified in other images as Gaajok, meaning that the photograph was most likely taken during July 1935 whilst Evans-Pritchard spent 4 weeks at the mouth of the Nyanding River among the Eastern Jikany, especially at Mancom village, the home of his servant Tiop.

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

Keyword:

Ornament Head , Ornament Neck , Ornament Arm

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] - 26. youths

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 5" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/26"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [3/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]