A Nuer dance

100 x 75 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.125.2 - Print gelatin silver , (100 x 75 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.125

Previous Other Number:

31 4 [frame 8]

Accession Number:

1998.346.125.1

Description:

A large number of people gathered at a dance, with small children and others seated on the ground in the foreground and youths dancing in the central area. Dances were more a feature of village life than cattle camps since people had more ready access to other social groups, and often accompanied ceremonies such as marriages. Such events were the main arena for courtship among Nuer youth, and often took the form of mock battles between village groups.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1931

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Yoinyang

Group:

Nuer ?Leek

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance

Keyword:

Dance Accessory

Activity:

Dancing

Event:

Dance

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 1966.27.17 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled. (some missing). Nos. 1 - 213. (prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of prints each in separate envelope. Nos. 1 - 213. (negatives in 1966.27.17.)

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 125. Dance. (L.) [Large size]

Note on negative mech. printed "8"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [15/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]