Portrait of Nuer youths

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.149.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

faded [20/11/86 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.IV.2

Previous Other Number:

8 [1]

Accession Number:

1998.355.149.2

Description:

A portrait of two youths, one standing leaning on a club, the other seated not looking at the camera. Another similar image of these two youths was published with a caption that points out that this image also shows a sandy ridge with cattle byres visible on the horizon. Settlement was concentrated on such ridges to avoid seasonal flooding.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler

Group:

Nuer Dok

Notes:

There would seem to be three Rolleiflex films identified as no. 8 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 8 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content. [CM 26/10/2007]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Weapon

Keyword:

Club

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 IV, ms ink] - 2. Youths (Dok)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Ler 8" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IV/2"

Other Information:

These youths are also seen in the image [1998.346.341] reproduced as Plate VIII (facing page 68) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Sandy ridge with cattle byres on the horizon (Dok)' It is also reproduced as Plate V (facing page 216) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's article Economic Life of the Nuer: Cattle (Part 1), Sudan Notes and Records XX, No.3, 1937, with the caption 'Sandy ridge with homesteads in the background (Duk Country)'. [Chris Morton 26/5/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [8/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]