A Nuer dance

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.542.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Sulphide staining left hand side (acid migration) [7/89 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XI.92

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.542.2

Description:

Several youths (one with a feather head ornament) holding spears stand in the foreground whilst a large number of other dancers are gathered beyond. Dances were occasions for courtship as well as war play, where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other in mock running battles as a show of group prowess. The people are described as Western Jikany and in related images as Jikul, the latter being a lineage or clan name not associated with one particular tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage among the Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer Western Jikany Jikul

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance , Social Life , Ornament

Keyword:

Dance Accessory , Ornament Head

Activity:

Dancing

Event:

Dance

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] - 92. youths

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 W.Jikany" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/92"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [5/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]