Nuer cattle byre
100 x 75 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.336
Accession Number:
1998.346.336
Description:
A cattle byre (luak) with thatched roof already in place, the walls unfinished.
Just in front of the structure can be seen forked branches with horizontal poles placed across, seemingly surrounding it.
Men as well as cattle spent the night in such byre (luak) s, with a dung fire kept burning to keep away mosquitos and other biting insects.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Jonglei ?Upper Nile
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter
Keyword:
Building Animals
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.)
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [4/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
