A Nuer dance

A Nuer dance
84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.688.1 - Negative film nitrate , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))
Condition:
Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XIV.76
Previous Other Number:
44 1 (A129)


Accession Number:
1998.355.688.2
Description:
A line of women wearing long fringe skirts with rear tassels dancing, with a line of men in front of them. The location is Yakwach cattle camp on the Sobat River which Evans-Pritchard revisited in July 1935. Frequent dances were the main arena for courtship and socialising among Nuer youth, and often took the form of mock battles between village groups.
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:
Dance , Clothing
Keyword:
Dance Accessory
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
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] - 76. dancing

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "44 A129" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIV/76"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [31/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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