Nuer animal trap
72 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
1930s (PRM)
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.353
Accession Number:
1998.346.353
Description:
A Pitt Rivers Museum photograph with scale showing a seven-spiked wooden wheel trap for use in hunting large animals.
When the animal stands in the ring and its leg becomes ensnared in the spikes, a leather attachment keeps the animal from running away.
This image was probably taken at Pitt Rivers Museum soon after its donation and a copy returned to Evans-Pritchard.
However, this object has yet to be identified within the collection by Rachael Sparkes, and so may well not have been finally accessioned, but possibly returned to Evans-Pritchard.
Photographer:
Unknown
Date of Photo:
1930s
Region:
[Southern Sudan]
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Hunting
Keyword:
Trap
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.)
Other Information:
According to Rachael Sparkes the trap is manufactured on a similar premise to that of the Anuak trap also donated by Evans-Pritchard, although the Anuak trap has many more spikes.
[Chris Morton 10/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [10/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
