Nuer men

115 x 85 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

?1920s

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.350

Accession Number:

1998.346.350

Description:

A group of four men sitting cross-legged beneath a large tree, one with a French rifle across his lap and ammunition around his waist, and several spears leaning against the tree. The photograph seems to have originated from Talib Ismail, a sub-mamur at Akobo in the Upper Nile Province 1920-27.

Photographer:

Talib Ismail

Date of Photo:

1920-7

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Upper Nile

Group:

Nuer Lou

Notes:

Biographical Information - Talib Ismail is noted in The Nuer as the source for two reproduced images. He was a Sudanese officer who served in Upper Nile Province as a sub-mamur at Akobo from 5 June 1920 to 1 November 1927. The prints all have the same handwriting on the reverse which may be that of C.G. Seligman who may have procured them in 1921-2 during travels in the region, and who used some of them in the volume Pagan Tribes of 1932. Curiously they reproduced the images crediting E-P as the source, although E-P rectified this in his own monograph. It is likely that Evans-Pritchard was given these Nuer prints by his supervisor Seligman. See correspondence with Douglas Johnson in RDF [Chris Morton 23/4/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection. Probably given to Evans-Pritchard by C. G. & B. Z. Seligman.

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Weapon

Keyword:

Firearm , Spear

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 - "Law Nuer, with French rifle" [i.e. Lou Nuer] [Chris Morton 10/5/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [10/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]