Shilluk woman

120 x 83 mm | Print gelatin silver

Condition:

Sulphide staining [EE 1989]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.SH.19

Accession Number:

1998.348.19

Description:

An upper body portrait of a young woman posed for the camera in front of a reed courtyard fence, wearing a textile cloth over one shoulder. She has a band across her forehead.

Photographer:

Charles Gabriel Seligman?

Date of Photo:

1910 circa

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile

Group:

Shilluk

Notes:

One of the six non-E-P photos at the end of his Shilluk series is a photograph by C.G. Seligman, reproduced cropped in Pagan Tribes (facing page 38). I would tentatively ascribed these photographs to Seligman therefore, taken on their first expedition up the Nile in 1909-10. [Chris Morton 16/3/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Textile

Keyword:

Textile

Primary Documentation:

PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p. 98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S. SUDAN, DARFUNG. VARIOUS TRIBES. Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Shuluk girl" [analysis of handwriting also suggests Seligman as originator] [Chris Morton 15/3/2004]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "SSS overall 8.89"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 16/3/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]