Birdlife in Nuerland

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.466.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.X.36

Previous Other Number:

7 (73)

Accession Number:

1998.355.466.2

Description:

A large bird in an open area of ground, with homestead huts visible beyond to the right. The location is noted as Pathai (?modern Fathai) on the road from Akobo, the route that Evans-Pritchard seems to have followed to western Nuerland in 1936 after completing a survey of the Luo in Kenya.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Fathai

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Fauna , Settlement

Keyword:

Animal Bird , Village

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 X, ms ink] - 36. country

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "7 73 Pathai" & print front border ms ink - "NUER X/36"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [29/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]