Portrait of a Nuer youth

Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining left hand side upper [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIV.12
Previous Other Number:
41 5


Accession Number:
1998.355.656.2
Description:
An portrait of a quizzical-looking youth standing in a homestead. Just in the frame to the right can be seen Tiop, Evans-Pritchard's Gaajok servant, which suggests a location of Mancom, his home village, where Evans-Pritchard spent 4 weeks in 1935.
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:
Physical Anthropology , Shelter
Keyword:
Building House
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 XIV, ms ink] - 12. Youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 5" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/12"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [27/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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