A Nuer dance
Max Dim=55 x 45 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.208.2 - Print gelatin silver , (52 x 43 mm )
1998.355.208.2 - Print gelatin silver , (52 x 43 mm )
Condition:
irregular cut and nicks in top side [Chris Morton 23/6/2004]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.V.19
Previous Other Number:
5 [2]
Accession Number:
1998.355.208.1
Description:
A group of four young men walk across a dance-ground, carrying spears and clubs, with a small boy ahead of them.
The leading youth and the child are speaking together.
Dances were significant occasions for courtship as well as war play, where initiated youths of differing villages faced each other in mock running battles as a show of group prowess.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village
Group:
Nuer ?Leek Karlual
Notes:
There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no.
5 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 5 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content.
[CM 26/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Dance , Weapon , Social Life
Keyword:
Club , Spear
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
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 1966.27.1-16 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Sixteen negative albums containing negatives
and
prints of photographs taken by donor during field-work.
All listed in albums.
Added Accession Book Entry - [p.
98 in right hand column, in pencil] Catalogue room.
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book V, ms ink] - 19. dancing
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book V, ms ink] - 19. dancing
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
