Nuer man with club

58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

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1998.346.341.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 54 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.341

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.346.341.1

Description:

A man standing with a club in his right hand looking down at a seated companion. This image was published with a caption that points out that this image also shows a sandy ridge with cattle byres visible on the horizon. Settlement was concentrated on such ridges to avoid seasonal flooding.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1936

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler

Group:

Nuer Dok

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VIII (facing page 68) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Sandy ridge with cattle byres on the horizon (Dok)' Also reproduced as Plate V (facing page 216) 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 'Sandy ridge with homesteads in the background (Duk Country)'. [Chris Morton 5/5/2004]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Weapon , Settlement

Keyword:

Club

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.)

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [5/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]