Nuer dance drums

58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.329.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VII.63

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.329.1

Description:

Men gathered for a dance in a homestead with two facing away from the camera beating narrow hide-covered drums (one short and one long) with a beater in the right hand. They are possibly looking towards other people arriving. The beating of drums accompanied dances in homesteads on certain occasions, such as marriage celebrations. They are described as Jikul which is lineage or clan name not associated with one tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country, but also elsewhere such as Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jikul country

Group:

Nuer Jikul

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Social Life , Music

Keyword:

Musical Instrument Drum

Activity:

Performing

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 VII, ms ink] - 63. drumming

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [5/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]