Nuer hut and mat-weaving
40 x 30 mm | Print 35mm contact
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.103
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.346.103.2
Description:
In the foreground a woman is sitting weaving a mat from plant stems, whilst behind her another woman is kneeling in the elongated entrance-way of a stake-walled village hut, with some sort of covering over her head.
This image is part of a film some of which includes Nuer Lou near the Sobat River, dating this image to Evans-Pritchard's 1931 fieldwork period.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei
Group:
Nuer Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Shelter , Furniture Dwelling
Keyword:
Village , Building House , Mat
Activity:
Manufacturing
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 1966.27.17 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled.
(some missing).
Nos.
1 - 213.
(prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of prints each in separate envelope.
Nos.
1 - 213.
(negatives in 1966.27.17.)
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 103. Hut and girl making mat. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 103 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 103. Hut and girl making mat. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 103 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [13/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
