Nuer milking
84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining left hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIV.48
Previous Other Number:
64 (A182)
Accession Number:
1998.355.674.2
Description:
A man holds a tether to keep a cow's back legs from kicking whilst a woman milks it.
Men were forbidden from milking unless no women or children were available, such as on a journey.
To the left two other youths are standing nearby, one wearing thiau armrings on his right arm.
This image was taken at Yakwach village on the Sobat, which Evans-Pritchard revisited in 1935.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 July
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Ornament
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Ornament Arm
Activity:
Milking
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] - 48. Milking
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "64 A182" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/48"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XIV, ms ink] - 48. Milking
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "64 A182" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/48"
Other Information:
A subsequent image of this scene is reproduced as Plate III (facing page 22) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Milking a restless cow (Lou)' [Chris Morton 27/8/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [27/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
