Nuer cattle camp

Nuer 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:
1998.346.194.1 - Negative film nitrate , (40 x 30 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.194
Previous Other Number:
3


Accession Number:
1998.346.194.2
Description:
A man wearing shorts stands in the foreground turning to look at the camera, with a cattle camp in the background, including tethered cattle, windbreaks, huts and a large byre (luak) . This image is part of a film dealing with Nuer camps on the Nyanding River area where Evans-Pritchard carried out fieldwork for a short period in 1931. This area was occupied by Jimac and Gaaliek secondary sections of the Mor primary section of the Lou.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei ?Nyanding River
Group:
Nuer Lou
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VIIb (facing page 62) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'b. Homesteads on mound (Lou)' Also reproduced as Plate VIIa (facing page 232) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's article Economic Life of the Nuer: Cattle (Part 1), Sudan Notes and Records XX, No.3, 1937, with the caption 'Kraal (Lou Country)'[Chris Morton 6/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Shelter
Keyword:
Building Animals , Animal Cattle
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)"] - 194. Cattle camp. (S.) [small size]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3
194 VIIb" & print fron ms ink - "Nuer VI/10 [crossed out]"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [20/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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