Nuer cattle camp

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.95.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

bend crease upper right hand side [Chris Morton 26/5/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.II.92

Previous Other Number:

6 [1]

Accession Number:

1998.355.95.2

Description:

A very distant view of a cluster of huts comprising a cattle camp, seen across a wide expanse of treeless grass savannah in western Nuerland. In the middle ground is a break in the vegetation, possibly suggesting a watercourse.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer

Notes:

There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 6 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 6 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:

Topography , Settlement

Keyword:

Cattle Camp

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] - 92. cattle camp

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "6 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/92"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [26/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]