Nuer man with plastered hair
76 x 52 mm (Kodak) | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XII.58
Previous Other Number:
29
Accession Number:
1998.355.576
Description:
A head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a man with hair ash-plastered into a forward facing 'horn', leaning against a colonial brick building at Pek.
Hair was plastered in this way as part of the process of dying the hair a reddish tint.
The image was taken by A.
N.
Tucker, who worked as Linguistic Expert of non-Arabic languages for the Sudan Government from 1929 to 1931.
Evans-Pritchard met Tucker when the latter visited his fieldsite in 1930, after which time he gave him these prints.
Photographer:
Archibald Norman Tucker
Date of Photo:
1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Pek
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Toilet , Ornament , Colonial
Keyword:
Hair , Ornament Neck , Building Official
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 XII, ms ink] - 58. Man (Pec) ["] [i.e. Print only A.N.Tucker [Chris Morton 23/8/2004]]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "29"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XII, ms ink] - 58. Man (Pec) ["] [i.e. Print only A.N.Tucker [Chris Morton 23/8/2004]]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "29"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
