Nuer swamp

Nuer swamp
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.682.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIV.64
Previous Other Number:
6 [1]


Accession Number:
1998.355.682.2
Description:
An area of marsh in Western Nuerland at the end of the rainy season. Evans-Pritchard notes that during a seventeen day tour of the area in October of 1936 he rarely found himself on dry land.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Western Jikany
Notes:
There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 6 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 6 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:
Topography
Keyword:
Rivers & Streams
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] - 64. marsh (Western Nuerland)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "6 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/64"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [31/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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