Nuer dance gathering
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.185.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.185.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IV.73
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.355.185.1
Description:
A gathering at a dance-ground.
A man in the foreground holds an ambatch log and spear in his left hand with a club tucked under his arm, whilst with his right he gestures to other men just out of frame left.
Small groups of other dancers are visible nearby.
War play with weapons was a common feature of dance gatherings where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other in mock running battles as a show of group prowess.
Dances were also significant occasions for courtship.
The people are described as Jikul, a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country where Evans-Pritchard conducted the bulk of his fieldwork in western Nuerland, but evidently was also a significant residential grouping among the Western Jikany where many of the dances images were taken.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Jikul
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Dance , Weapon , Social Life , Body Language
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Spear
Activity:
Gesturing Hand
Event:
Dance
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 IV, ms ink] - 73. Dancing
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IV, ms ink] - 73. Dancing
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [16/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
