Nuer youths at water hole
40 x 30 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.155.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
1998.346.155.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.155
Previous Other Number:
4
Accession Number:
1998.346.155.1
Description:
Youths sitting in the shade of a bush next to a shallow water hole possibly dug in a stream bed for use during the dry season, at an unknown location, but probably in Lou country.
The youth leaning in the foreground has his hair dressed with ashes and bears the forehead scarification lines of initiation, which would make him probably over the age of sixteen.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1931 or 1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei
Group:
Nuer ?Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Body Art , Water Supply , Social Life
Keyword:
Body Art Head , Well
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)"] - 155. Artificial watering place. (S.) [small size]
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 155. Artificial watering place. (S.) [small size]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [16/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
