Nuer praise singing
84 x 52 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
fading [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XII.71
Previous Other Number:
20
Accession Number:
1998.355.585
Description:
In the morning a man dances behind his song-ox being led by a friend to the left of the frame.
He is holding a spear and shield and is probably singing a praise song or calling out his ox-name.
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:
1929 -1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Pibor River Rumyiri
Group:
Nuer ?Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Cattle Camp , Animal Cattle
Activity:
Dancing
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] - 71. Tuar (A.N.T.- Print only)
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Chap dancing behind his bull (which is being lead by a friend out of the picture). Time about 8am. Rumyiri - Pibor"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XII, ms ink] - 71. Tuar (A.N.T.- Print only)
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Chap dancing behind his bull (which is being lead by a friend out of the picture). Time about 8am. Rumyiri - Pibor"
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - Evans-Pritchard labels this photograph with the Nuer term Tuar, which may be the word for singing a praise-song about one's bull.
[Chris Morton 23/8/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
