Nuer oxen
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.407.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.407.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IX.19
Previous Other Number:
6 [1]
Accession Number:
1998.355.407.1
Description:
A number of cattle making their way across a plain, with a light coloured ox with tasselled decoration on its upright left horn, its right horn trained backwards.
Youth decorated their favourite oxen in this manner for aesthetically pleasing effects, and the identification between them and their ox was such that they took their initiated name and prestige from it.
In contrast to his two earlier fieldwork visits when photographing cattle was viewed suspiciously by the Nuer, Evans-Pritchard took numerous record images of them during his later field trips.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer
Notes:
There would seem to be two Rolleiflex films identified as no.
6 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 6 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:
Animal Husbandry , Animal Gear
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
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 IX, ms ink] - 19. Cattle on ridge
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IX, ms ink] - 19. Cattle on ridge
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [16/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
