Nuer gourd

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

Condition:

Sulphide staining left hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIII.92

Previous Other Number:

[?04] 1

Accession Number:

1998.355.646.2

Description:

A youth wearing a textile body cloth (Evans-Pritchard's cook Tiop) holding a (?churning) gourd into the frame with an outstretched arm against a woven grass fence backdrop. In other images it is clear that this was a courtyard fence at a mission or government property, most likely at Nasir.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nasir

Group:

Nuer

NamedPerson:

Tiop

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Vessel , Clothing

Keyword:

Vessel Gourd , Textile

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] - 92. gourd

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "1" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/92"

Recorder:

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