Nuer homestead and family

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.214.1 - Negative film nitrate , (60 x 60 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.213

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.346.214.2

Description:

A man and his sons holding sticks with ash smeared on their faces standing outside the cattle byre (luak) in their homestead. Around them are their cattle tethered in the courtyard. A note on the print suggests that the location of this image is somewhere in western Nuerland.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935 - 1936

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda ?Jonglei

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Settlement , Shelter , Body Art

Keyword:

Building Animals , Animal Cattle , Body Art Head

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.)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 W. Nuer"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [21/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]