Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIII.16
Previous Other Number:
3
Accession Number:
1998.355.608.2
Description:
A three-quarter length full face portrait of a youth with cloth headdress (?identified as Twaring) holding a club and standing next to Evans-Pritchard's tent.
He seems to have a section of dotted scarification on the left side of his chest.
Evans-Pritchard spent about seven weeks in total in Nuer Leek country, during Oct-Nov 1936, mostly at Nyueny village among the Karlual section.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village
Group:
Nuer Leek Karlual
NamedPerson:
?Twaring
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Body Art
Keyword:
Club , Body Art Skin , Headdress
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 XIII, ms ink] - 16. youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/16"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XIII, ms ink] - 16. youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/16"
Other Information:
A portrait of the same youth is reproduced as Plate VII (facing page 84) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990 [1951]) with the caption 'A youth singing in praise of his ox.
His arms are raised in imitation of its horns.' That image is indexed by E-P as 'Twaring - Karlual'.
I am not sure whether Twaring is a personal name or a place name.
[Chris Morton 24/8/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [24/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
