Portrait of a Nuer youth
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.II.98
Previous Other Number:
5 (100)
Accession Number:
1998.355.98.2
Description:
A formal upper body full face portrait of a male youth (identified as Nhial) wearing a white shirt and numerous string neck ornaments and earrings.
Nhial first joined Evans-Pritchard in 1930 as he struggled to establish his first fieldwork base, and travelled with him to Muot Dit for work among the Lou.
He is also known to have met up with Evans-Pritchard again in 1931 and features in an image that can be suggested of that date [1998.346.12].
This image however was taken in 1936, when Nhial was again employed by Evans-Pritchard, and when Evans-Pritchard spent five out of seven weeks fieldwork at Nhial's home village of Nyueny.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny
Group:
Nuer Leek Karlual
NamedPerson:
Nhial
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Arm , 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 II, ms ink] - 97. Nhial
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 100 Nhial" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/98"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book II, ms ink] - 97. Nhial
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 100 Nhial" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/98"
Other Information:
In E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's Nuer Religion (Oxford University Press 1974 [1957]), page 35, he notes that 'Nhial, Galuak's brother, was working for me.' This information is offered in the context of fieldwork almost certainly carried out in 1936 among the Karlual section of the Nuer Leek, a conclusion also supported by the Rolleiflex format used by E-P during 1935-6.
[Chris Morton 16/6/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [26/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
