Nuer girl milking

Nuer girl milking
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.469.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.X.42
Previous Other Number:
43 4 (A92)


Accession Number:
1998.355.469.2
Description:
Looking across a kraal at Yakwach towards a young girl milking a cow with large horns. Beyond are the cattle byre (luak) and huts as well as two tall posts, possibly household shrines. Men were forbidden from milking unless no women or children were available, such as on a journey and the task was one of the most important of female household tasks.
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:
Animal Husbandry , Food and Drink , Shelter , Religion
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Building Animals , Building House , Shrine
Activity:
Milking
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 X, ms ink] - 42. Milking

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 4 A92" & print front border ms ink - "NUER X/42"

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [29/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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