Nuer hut type

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.564.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

blue ink stain upper left hand side [Chris Morton 6/8/2004]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XII.36

Previous Other Number:

64 4 (A170)

Accession Number:

1998.355.564.2

Description:

An unfinished hut showing the method of construction. The walls are made from upright stakes with the gaps between filled with clay. The wall is sometimes then plastered over. The roof thatch has extended grasses hanging over the walls to protect them from rainwater which would weaken them. The photograph seems to have been taken at Yakwach village where Evans-Pritchard carried out a small amount of further fieldwork among the Lou in 1935.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935 July

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach

Group:

Nuer Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Shelter

Keyword:

Building House

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 XII, ms ink] - 36. hut

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "64 4 A170" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XII/36"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [6/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]