Nuer men cultivating

84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.55.1 - Negative film nitrate , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.II.10

Previous Other Number:

02 7

Accession Number:

1998.355.55.2

Description:

Two men sitting amid growing crops, possibly millet, in Western Nuerland. Cultivation, along with fishing, was considered a subsidiary but necessary activity by the cattle keeping Nuer. This image may show the second millet crop which was planted around August time, since Evans-Pritchard visited western Nuerland in October and November of 1936.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer ?Leek

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Agriculture and Horticulture

Keyword:

Garden , Crop

Activity:

Soil Preparation

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 II, ms ink] - 10. Cultivating

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "W. Nuer 02 7" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/10"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [24/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]