Portrait of a Nuer youth

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

Condition:

Sulphide staining left hand side + right hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIII.78

Previous Other Number:

5 [2]

Accession Number:

1998.355.639.2

Description:

A full length portrait of a youth standing in a homestead in Western Nuerland, wearing leg and arm ornaments, including thiau arm rings. He is probably a resident of Nyueny village where Evans-Pritchard stayed among the Leek in 1936.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer Leek Karlual

Notes:

There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 5 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 5 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content. [CM 26/10/2007]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Ornament

Keyword:

Ornament Arm , Ornament Leg

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] - 78. Youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/78"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [26/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]