Nuer boy

97 x 72 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.48.2 - Print gelatin silver , (97 x 72 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.48

Previous Other Number:

B9 (76 3)

Accession Number:

1998.346.48.1

Description:

A three-quarter length full face portrait of a youth (holding something behind his back?) with ash smeared on his body, typical of dry season life when youths sleep on a layer of ash around a fire in the windbreak. He is wearing ear ornaments and others on his wrists, waist and neck. In the background can be seen a sleeping hut.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1936

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jonglei Upper Nile

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Ornament , Body Art

Keyword:

Ornament Arm , Ornament Body , 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 1966.27.17 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled. (some missing). Nos. 1 - 213. (prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of prints each in separate envelope. Nos. 1 - 213. (negatives in 1966.27.17.)

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 48. Boy. (L.) [Large size] (B.9)

Note on negative ms ink - "B" & mech. printed "9"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [31/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]