Nuer man with plastered hair

Nuer man with plastered hair
76 x 52 mm (Kodak) | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XII.58
Previous Other Number:
29


Accession Number:
1998.355.576
Description:
A head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a man with hair ash-plastered into a forward facing 'horn', leaning against a colonial brick building at Pek. Hair was plastered in this way as part of the process of dying the hair a reddish tint. The image was taken by A. N. Tucker, who worked as Linguistic Expert of non-Arabic languages for the Sudan Government from 1929 to 1931. Evans-Pritchard met Tucker when the latter visited his fieldsite in 1930, after which time he gave him these prints.
Photographer:
Archibald Norman Tucker
Date of Photo:
1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Pek
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Toilet , Ornament , Colonial
Keyword:
Hair , Ornament Neck , Building Official
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 XII, ms ink] - 58. Man (Pec) ["] [i.e. Print only A.N.Tucker [Chris Morton 23/8/2004]]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "29"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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