Nuer porters
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.II.33
Accession Number:
1998.355.67
Description:
A distant image of three carriers in a treeless grass savannah in western Nuerland.
Evans-Pritchard arrived at Adok in Dok country on October 1st 1936 having spent the preceeding months completing a survey of the Luo of Kenya.
He soon moved on northwards however, spending most time among the Karlual section of the Leek tribe.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Dok country
Group:
Nuer Dok
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VI (facing page 54) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Nuer
(Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Typical savannah in October (Western Nuerland)' [Chris Morton 24/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Topography , Expedition
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 II, ms ink] - 33. Trekking (Dok)
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book II, ms ink] - 33. Trekking (Dok)
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [24/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
