Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Fading? (worst left hand side) [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XV.98
Previous Other Number:
83
Accession Number:
1998.355.749.2
Description:
A three-quarter length portrait of a young man with his hair plastered into a 'horn' with ash, a process carried out in order to tint the hair a reddish colour as well as straighten it.
The youth is probably a Gaajok resident of Mancom village where Evans-Pritchard carried out fieldwork in 1935 at the home village of his servant Tiop, whom he had first met in 1931.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom
Group:
Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Toilet
Keyword:
Hair
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] - 98. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XV/98"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XV, ms ink] - 98. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XV/98"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [20/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
