Atuot youth dancing
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.615.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.615.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIII.30
Previous Other Number:
4 [2]
Accession Number:
1998.355.615.2
Description:
A youth dressed in European clothes jumps high with arms outstretched, a spear planted in the earth in front of him.
The image is described as Atuot dancing, which suggests that this youth is an Atuot that Evans-Pritchard met during his fieldwork in Western Nuerland in 1936, and who is demonstrating an Atuot dance gesture for the camera.
The Atuot are linguistically related to the Nuer, living some distance to the south among the Dinka, and having taken on many Dinka cultural patterns.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Atuot
Notes:
There are 18 Rolleiflex exposures labeled as film number '4' – comparison of the number 4s on the print reverse however shows that they fall into two sets of nine negatives, the gorot series and this series.
[CM 19/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Dance
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 XIII, ms ink] - 30. Man dancing (Dinka?) [this is almost certainly incorrect - see print reverse note] [Chris Morton 25/8/2004]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 Atwot dancing" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/30"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XIII, ms ink] - 30. Man dancing (Dinka?) [this is almost certainly incorrect - see print reverse note] [Chris Morton 25/8/2004]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 Atwot dancing" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/30"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [25/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
