A Nuer dance

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.525.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

very slight Sulphide staining left hand side [7/89 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XI.56

Previous Other Number:

02 8

Accession Number:

1998.355.525.2

Description:

A large number of dancers gathered together with men performing the jumping movement (rau) as well as kneeling and crouching, part of the mock combat using club and spear that is a feature of large dances. In the foreground a man moves past the camera carrying an ambatch-wood parrying shield. Dances were significant occasions for courtship as well as war play, where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other in mock running battles as a show of group prowess. The people are described as Western Jikany and in related images as Jikul, the latter being a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among the Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer Western Jikany Jikul

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance , Social Life , Weapon

Keyword:

Dance Accessory , Spear , Shield

Activity:

Dancing

Event:

Dance

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] - 56. dancing

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 8 W. Jikany" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/56"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [4/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]