Nuer game-trap
79 x 51 mm (Kodak) | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XII.60
Accession Number:
1998.355.578
Description:
A youth standing next to what seems to be a trap for small animals, consisting of a fenced narrow walkway with a large log suspended above.
As the animal enters the gap it evidently would trigger the log to fall, trapping it underneath.
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]
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Hunting
Keyword:
Trap
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] - 60. game trap? (Print only A.N.T.)
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XII, ms ink] - 60. game trap? (Print only A.N.T.)
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
