Nuer cattle camp
40 x 30 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.194.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
1998.346.194.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.194
Previous Other Number:
3
Accession Number:
1998.346.194.1
Description:
A man wearing shorts stands in the foreground turning to look at the camera, with a cattle camp in the background, including tethered cattle, windbreaks, huts and a large byre (luak) .
This image is part of a film dealing with Nuer camps on the Nyanding River area where Evans-Pritchard carried out fieldwork for a short period in 1931.
This area was occupied by Jimac and Gaaliek secondary sections of the Mor primary section of the Lou.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei ?Nyanding River
Group:
Nuer Lou
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VIIb (facing page 62) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Nuer
(Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'b.
Homesteads on mound (Lou)' Also reproduced as Plate VIIa (facing page 232) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article
Economic Life of the Nuer: Cattle
(Part 1),
Sudan Notes and Records
XX, No.3, 1937, with the caption 'Kraal (Lou Country)'[Chris Morton 6/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Shelter
Keyword:
Building Animals , Animal Cattle
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)"] - 194. Cattle camp. (S.) [small size]
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 194. Cattle camp. (S.) [small size]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [20/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
