Shilluk woman
110 x 63 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.SH.20; EP.M.80
Accession Number:
1998.348.20
Description:
A full length portrait of a young woman posed for the camera holding an adze, wearing a goatskin and beaded apron.
The format of this print does not match others taken by Evans-Pritchard, so it can be assumed that this is an image given to him, perhaps by C.G.
Seligman.
Photographer:
Charles Gabriel Seligman?
Date of Photo:
1910 circa
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile
Group:
Shilluk
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing Skin , Bead , Ornament
Keyword:
Adze , Ornament Neck
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 - "EP.M.80"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "SSS overall 8.89"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "EP.M.80"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "SSS overall 8.89"
Other Information:
One of the six non-E-P photos at the end of this Shilluk series is a photograph by C.G.
Seligman, reproduced cropped in Pagan Tribes (facing page 38).
I have tentatively ascribed these photographs to Seligman therefore, taken on their first expedition up the Nile in 1909-10.
[Chris Morton 16/3/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 16/3/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
