A Nuer dance

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.271.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

slight acid migration stain right hand side [5/12/86 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VI.48

Previous Other Number:

64 3 (A144)

Accession Number:

1998.355.271.2

Description:

A group of men with spears, one with ash decoration on his legs, dance past the camera over two long poles, with the Sobat River in the background. The dancers are Lou men of Yakwach camp which Evans-Pritchard revisited 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:

Dance , Social Life

Keyword:

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 VI, ms ink] - 48. Dancing

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "64 3 A144" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VI/48"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [30/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]