Nuer hut and firescreen

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

Condition:

Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XII.84

Previous Other Number:

83 2

Accession Number:

1998.355.592.2

Description:

A hut with step-thatching and an extended thatched entrance porch, with a buor firescreen in front of it. Often these firescreens incorporated three humps on the top, and were a symbol of a woman's status as a wife and mother of a household. Sacrifices were often made near to the buor of the homestead. To the right a woman can be seen sitting on the ground. According to the film number the image was probably taken during the four weeks in 1935 Evans-Pritchard spent among the Gaajok at Mancom village at the mouth of the Nyanding River, the home village 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:

Shelter , Domestic Life , Ritual Object , Fire

Keyword:

Building House , Fire Accessory

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] - 84. hut & buor

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83 2" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XII/84"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [24/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]