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:
1998.355.298.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VII.1

Previous Other Number:

8 [2]

Accession Number:

1998.355.298.1

Description:

A youth in dancing gear and metal arm ornaments walks past in the foreground, whilst in the distance a large number of dancers are gathered together. Dances were significant occasions for courtship as well as war play, where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other in mock running battles as a show of group prowess. The man is described as Jikul, a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among the Western Jikany and Leek.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer Western Jikany Jikul

Notes:

There would seem to be three Rolleiflex films identified as no. 8 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 8 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content. [CM 26/10/2007]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance , Social Life , Weapon , Ornament

Keyword:

Dance Accessory , Spear , Ornament Arm

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 VII, ms ink] - 1. dancing

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [1/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]