Portrait of Nuer women

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.88.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

slight staining [20/11/86 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.II.78

Previous Other Number:

02 4

Accession Number:

1998.355.88.2

Description:

A full-length portrait of two women, one married wearing a skirt, with her arm around the shoulder of the younger, a long basket at their feet. They are described as Jikul which is lineage or clan name not associated with one tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country, but also elsewhere such as Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jikul country

Group:

Nuer Jikul

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Basketry , Body Language

Keyword:

Basket

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] - 78. Girls

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 4 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/78"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [25/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]