Shilluk man playing lyre
83 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.348.3.2 - Print gelatin silver , (83 x 55 mm)
1998.348.3.2 - Print gelatin silver , (83 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.SH.3
Previous Other Number:
11 (123)
Accession Number:
1998.348.3.1
Description:
A squatting man plucking a lyre with two other men with a spear and club, sitting on the ground alongside, and a small hut just beyond.
Outside the hut is a tressle table with some ?bedding folded on it, and a man in overalls walks towards it.
It seems that Evans-Pritchard visited a Shilluk village briefly during one of his trips to the Nuer, probably near the Doleib Hill missionary station on the Sobat River (roughly six miles from its confluence with the White Nile), established in 1902 by the American Presbytarian Mission and after 1925 run by Rev.
J.
A.
Heasty, seen in one of the images.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1935 circa
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Malakal ?Doleib Hill
Group:
Shilluk
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Music , Shelter , Furniture Dwelling
Keyword:
Musical Instrument String , Building House
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p.
98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S.
SUDAN, DARFUNG.
VARIOUS TRIBES.
Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.
Note on negative ms ink - "123"
Note on negative ms ink - "123"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 12/3/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
