Nuer girl in millet garden

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.15.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.I.30

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.15.2

Description:

A three quarter length portrait of a girl with her hand held over her head, standing in a millet garden with the crop very tall, presumably close to harvesting, at Ler village near Adok. This would suggest a date towards the end of the rains around the beginning of October, which is the date Evans-Pritchard arrived at Adok in 1936.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler

Group:

Nuer Dok

Notes:

Another image of the same girl taken at the same time is reproduced as Plate XIII (facing page 104) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Girl in millet garden (Dok)' [CM 18/8/2005]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Agriculture and Horticulture

Keyword:

Garden , Crop Millet

Activity:

Gesturing Hand

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 I, ms ink] - 30. Girl in millet garden - Dok

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Ler 2" & print front border ms ink - "NUER I/30"

Recorder:

[Christopher Morton 17/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]