A Nuer dance

52 x 43 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.208.1 - Negative film nitrate , (Max Dim=55 x 45 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.V.20

Previous Other Number:

5 [2]

Accession Number:

1998.355.208.2

Description:

A group of four young men walk across a dance-ground, carrying spears and clubs, with a small boy ahead of them. The leading youth and the child are speaking 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.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer ?Leek Karlual

Notes:

There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no. 5 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 5 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 , Weapon , Social Life

Keyword:

Club , Spear

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 V, ms ink] - 20. dancing

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER V/20"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [23/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]