Nuer man cultivating
84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.II.60
Previous Other Number:
28 4 1 (A236)
Accession Number:
1998.355.79.2
Description:
Looking down at a man sitting on the ground digging with a stick in a garden.
Cultivation, along with fishing, was considered a subsidiary but necessary activity by the cattle keeping Nuer.
Based on film numbers this image is likely to have been taken at Nasir post during Evans-Pritchard's second visit there in 1935.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Nasir
Group:
Nuer ?Eastern Jikany
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Garden
Activity:
Soil Preparation
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 II, ms ink] - 60. Cultivating
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "28 1 4 A236" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/60"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book II, ms ink] - 60. Cultivating
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "28 1 4 A236" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/60"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [25/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
