Nuer youth with headdress

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

Condition:

blue crop line left hand side [Chris Morton 18/5/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.16

Previous Other Number:

40 1

Accession Number:

1998.355.8.2

Description:

Looking down at a seated youth with his hair mud plastered into a horn with dark coloured hoop decoration. He is sitting near to Evans-Pritchard's tent since some of his possessions can be seen to the left of the blue crop line drawn across the print. Evans-Pritchard spent some 4 weeks in (probably June) 1935 at the mouth of the Nyanding River among the Eastern Jikany tribes.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as the frontispiece in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's Nuer Religion (Oxford University Press 1974 [1957]) with the caption 'Youth'. [Chris Morton 18/5/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Toilet , Ornament

Keyword:

Hair , Ornament Arm , Ornament Neck , Ornament Ear

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 I, ms ink] - 16. Youth - E. Jikany

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "40 1 [numerous printer's marks]" & ms ink print front "NUER I/16" "[Chris Morton 18/5/2004]"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [18/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]