Nuer youth and boys
84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
very slight Sulphide staining [7/89 EE]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.58
Previous Other Number:
41 3
Accession Number:
1998.355.526.2
Description:
An three-quarter length portrait of an initiated youth carrying a spear with ornaments around his forehead and neck, his hair plastered with ash into a forward-facing 'horn'.
Other boys behind him look on at the camera.
Evans-Pritchard spent some 4 weeks in 1935 among the Eastern Jikany tribes living at the mouth of the Nyanding River.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom
Group:
Nuer Eastern Jikany
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Ornament , Toilet
Keyword:
Spear , Ornament Head , Hair
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 XI, ms ink] - 58. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 3" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/58"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 58. Youth
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 3" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/58"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [4/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
