Nuer youths relaxing
61 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.92
Previous Other Number:
16 (91)
Accession Number:
1998.346.92.2
Description:
A group of youths in the foreground, with one resting his head on a wooden neckrest or headrest as another youth places his hand around his chin, plucking hairs from his chin.
Younger boys sit next to them watching the camera.
Beyond is a goat grazing in a sparsely wooded area.
In another image it is clear that they are resting in the shade of Evans-Pritchard's tent.
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:
Social Life , Furniture Dwelling
Keyword:
Headrest
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)"] - 92. Man on neckrest with another plucking hairs from his chin. (S.) [small size] (91)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "16 91 92 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 92. Man on neckrest with another plucking hairs from his chin. (S.) [small size] (91)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "16 91 92 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [7/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
