Nuer youth with club
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.94.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.94.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Condition:
Faded [20/11/86 EE]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.II.90
Previous Other Number:
8 [1]
Accession Number:
1998.355.94.2
Description:
An upper body full face portrait of an initiated youth with deep gar lines on the forehead, holding a club.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler
Group:
Nuer Dok
Notes:
There would seem to be three Rolleiflex films identified as no.
8 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 8 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:
Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Body Art
Keyword:
Club , Body Art Skin
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 II, ms ink] - 90. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "8 Ler" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/90"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book II, ms ink] - 90. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "8 Ler" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/90"
Other Information:
This youth is also seen in the image [1998.346.341] reproduced as Plate VIII (facing page 68) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Sandy ridge with cattle byres on the horizon (Dok)' It is also reproduced as Plate V (facing page 216) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article Economic Life of the Nuer: Cattle (Part 1), Sudan Notes and Records XX, No.3, 1937, with the caption 'Sandy ridge with homesteads in the background (Duk Country)'.
[Chris Morton 26/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [26/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
