Moro grave marker

140 x 82 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.353.8.1 - Negative film nitrate , (138 x 100 mm)

Condition:

Silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.Misc.8

Previous Other Number:

72 2 (+69); Moro handlist no.472

Accession Number:

1998.353.8.2

Description:

Rising out of the grass four forked posts lean together, seemingly to mark a Moro Kederu grave.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

?1927

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Western Equatoria Amadi District

Group:

Moro Kederu

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Death

Keyword:

Grave Marker

Documentation:

Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]

Primary Documentation:

PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p. 98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S. SUDAN, DARFUNG. VARIOUS TRIBES. Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Moro"] - 472. Forked wooden grave post

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "72/2 +69 472 Kederu"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [9/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]