Nuer windbreak at cattle camp

40 x 30 mm | Print 35mm contact

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.191.1 - Negative film nitrate , (40 x 30 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.191

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.346.191.2

Description:

Looking into a windbreak (with a collapsed fence next to it) at a dry season camp (wec) with a cow tethered in front, and stake-walled huts visible beyond. Inside the windbreak is a youth, possibly holding a drinking straw or even a pipe.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1931

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River

Group:

Nuer Lou

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XVa (facing page 134) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940) with the caption 'a. Windscreen (Lou)'. Also reproduced as Plate IIIa (facing page 74) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's article Nuer: Tribe and Clan , Sudan Notes and Records, XVIII, 1935, with the caption 'A windscreen in Lou country'. [Chris Morton 23/3/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Settlement , Shelter , Water Supply

Keyword:

Cattle Camp , Windbreak , Rivers & Streams

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)"] - 191. Cattle camp and windscreen. (S.) [small size]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 191 "

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [20/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]