Portrait of Nuer youths

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.416.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.IX.38

Previous Other Number:

41 4

Accession Number:

1998.355.416.2

Description:

An upper body group portrait of three youths wearing head and neck ornaments including metal disk pendants. The youth to the left has his hair plastered with ash and is leaning on a wooden spear. It was almost certainly taken during 1935, and the wearing of white body cloths suggests that they may have been associated with the mission at Nasir.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile ?Nasir

Group:

Nuer ?Eastern Jikany Gaajok

Publication History:

Research publication - Reproduced (p.44) with the caption 'Nuer pastoralists.' in Burr, Rachel and Heather Montgomery 'Family, Kinship and Beyond' in Maybin, Janet and Martin Woodhead (eds) Childhoods in Context (Childhood 2) , Chichester: John Wiley and Sons in association with the Open University, pp. 39-70. [Chris Morton 2/9/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Ornament , Weapon , Toilet

Keyword:

Ornament Head , Ornament Neck , Spear , Hair

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 IX, ms ink] - 38. Youths

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 4" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IX/38"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [16/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]