Nuer policeman
84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.III.4
Previous Other Number:
02 5
Accession Number:
1998.355.101.2
Description:
A full length portrait of a man standing near a pool with papyrus growing beyond and clothes drying on the ground, wearing a metal arm badge, the insignia of the local police force (see also 1998.346.227).
The native police force was recruited from 1927 to assist with the enforcement of judgements made at local chief's courts, which were also augmented at this time, a policy forcefully pushed through by C.
A.
Willis who became governor of Upper Nile Province in 1926.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Adok
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Insignia , Colonial
Keyword:
Ornament Arm
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 1966.27.1-16 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Sixteen negative albums containing negatives
and
prints of photographs taken by donor during field-work.
All listed in albums.
Added Accession Book Entry - [p.
98 in right hand column, in pencil] Catalogue room.
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book III, ms ink] - 4. Nuer policeman
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 02 Adok" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/4"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book III, ms ink] - 4. Nuer policeman
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "5 02 Adok" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/4"
Other Information:
Willis's establishment of a Nuer police force in the Upper Nile is discussed in D.
Johnson's Nuer Prophets (Clarendon, Oxford, 1994) pp.
184-6.
Percy Coriat, a D.C.
in the Sudan in the 1920s-30s also noted that 'Chief's Police start and end on 10 pt.
per month pay plus a red armlet.
They are given a toga of cloth as they are inclined to be shy if in Malakal.' (D.
Johnson (ed.), Governing the Nuer: Document by Percy Coriat on Nuer History and Ethnography 1923-31 (JASO, Oxford 1993) p.76.
[Chris Morton 26/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [26/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
