Net fishing in Sobat River

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.471.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.X.46

Previous Other Number:

04 2

Accession Number:

1998.355.471.2

Description:

A dark image of a (?Dinka) youth having just cast a net into the Sobat River from the bank, near to one of the wood-stations dotted along its course. Evans-Pritchard notes that this is not a Nuer youth, presumably since net fishing was not favoured by them. Nuer fishing, as seen in other images, was normally undertaken with long harpoons whilst wading or canoeing in the rivers or inland lagoons, or else speared from specially constructed dams.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Nyanding confluence

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Fishing , Topography

Keyword:

Net , Rivers & Streams

Activity:

Fishing

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] - 46. Casting fishing-net (not Nuer)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "04 2" & print front border ms ink - "NUER X/46"Note on negative ms ink - ""

Recorder:

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