Portrait of a Nuer youth
   58 x 55 mm  | Negative film nitrate 
     
   
 
 There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database: 
1998.355.341.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.341.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print: 
Unknown 
Previous PRM Number: 
EP.N.VII.87 
Previous Other Number: 
28 (A222) 
 
Accession Number: 
1998.355.341.1 
Description: 
A head and shoulders portrait of an initiated youth with ash decoration smeared in a line across his lips and cheeks. 
Based on similar images this was probably taken at the American Mission at Nasir, which Evans-Pritchard revisited during his short period of fieldwork in 1935. 
Photographer: 
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard 
Date of Photo: 
1935 
Region: 
[Southern Sudan]  Upper Nile  Sobat River  Nasir 
Group: 
Nuer ?Gaajok 
PRM Source: 
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard 
Acquired: 
Donated 1966 
Other Owners: 
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection 
Class: 
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Ornament , Body Art 
Keyword: 
Ornament Neck , Ornament Ear , Body Art Paint 
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] - 87. Youth
Note on negative ms ink - "A222"
 
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book VII, ms ink] - 87. Youth
Note on negative ms ink - "A222"
Recorder: 
Christopher Morton [6/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project] 
  
