Nuer hut

97 x 72 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.49.2 - Print gelatin silver , (97 x 72 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.49

Previous Other Number:

A4 (76 1)

Accession Number:

1998.346.49.1

Description:

A beehive-shaped wattle and mud hut thatched with grass laid on the rafters, probably in a village homestead. A person is visible at the rounded doorway, a woven grass door sitting beside it. In the foreground is a Nuer dog and the low remains of a grass windscreen facing the cattle, one of which can just be seen to the right.

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:

Settlement , Shelter , Animal Husbandry

Keyword:

Village , Building House , Windbreak , Animal Dog

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)"] - 49. Hut. (L.) [Large size] (A.4)

Note on negative ms ink - "A" & mech. printed "4"

Recorder:

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