Nuer dog

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.715.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XV.30

Previous Other Number:

43 2 (A76)

Accession Number:

1998.355.715.2

Description:

A portrait of a thin dog (same with wound on head). standing in a kraal. Dogs were used by the Nuer for occasional hunting of antelope and other game. Based on the film number, this dog was photographed at Yakwach on the Sobat River, 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

Keyword:

Animal Dog

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 XV, ms ink] - 30. dog

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 2 A76" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XV/30"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [1/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]