Nuer orphans at mission

105 x 60 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

before 1935

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.346

Accession Number:

1998.346.346

Description:

A group portrait of eight mostly young children wearing western clothing, standing next to the American Presbytarian Mission building at nasir. In the background is a water tower with a raised tank for piped water supplies. The children are identified as eight motherless children being cared for by Blanche Soule at the mission which Evans-Pritchard visited in 1931 and again in 1935, when he was presumably given the photograph.

Photographer:

?Blanche Cora Soule

Date of Photo:

- 1935 (before)

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Nasir

Group:

Nuer ?Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Clothing , Shelter

Keyword:

Building Religious

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.)

Note on print reverse ms ink - "My eight Nuer motherless children" & [different hand] "Miss Soule (missionary)"

Other Information:

Blanche Cora Soule worked as a missionary at the American Presbytarian Mission at Nasir on the Sobat River at least until 1945. [Chris Morton 5/5/2004]

Recorder:

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