A Nuer dance

58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.268.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VI.41

Previous Other Number:

02 6

Accession Number:

1998.355.268.1

Description:

Men with spears and ambatch shields dance in the foreground whilst a large number of other dancers are gathered beyond. Mock battle and war play was a common feature of such dance gatherings where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other as a show of group prowess. Dances were also significant occasions for courtship. The people are described as Western Jikany and in related images as Jikul, the latter being a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among the Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer Western Jikany Jikul

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance , Weapon , Social Life

Keyword:

Dance Accessory , Spear , Shield

Activity:

Dancing

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 VI, ms ink] - 41. Dancing

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [29/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]