Nuer cattle byre

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.282.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VI.70

Previous Other Number:

83 2

Accession Number:

1998.355.282.2

Description:

A thatched hut used for both cattle and initiated men to shelter in at night, with large poles forming a fence leading up to the entrance. Evans-Pritchard reckoned that on average Nuer households had ten or twelve head of cattle each. Men often slept in the byres with their cattle, on a platform over the cattle-dung fire that burned to keep away mosquitos. In front of the byre (luak) is cattle dung spread out on the ground to dry in the morning for use as fuel later. According to the film number the image was probably taken during the four weeks in 1935 Evans-Pritchard spent among the Gaajok at Mancom village at the mouth of the Nyanding River, the home village of his servant Tiop.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Shelter

Keyword:

Building Animals , Fence

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] - 70. hut

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83 2" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VI/70"

Recorder:

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