Nuer girl grinding

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.589.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XII.78

Previous Other Number:

43 3 (A45)

Accession Number:

1998.355.589.2

Description:

Outside the entrance to a hut a girl grinds grain for flour using a stone or wood hand tool and what looks like a curved wooden grinding block on which the flour falls away towards the front on to a piece of hide or other flat recepticle. Beyond can be seen a long basket for collecting crops and a thornwood fence to protect crops from cattle kept in the kraal.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935 July

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach

Group:

Nuer Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Food and Drink , Domestic Life

Keyword:

Grinder , Fence

Activity:

Grinding

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 XII, ms ink] - 78. Girl grinding

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 3 A45" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XII/78"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]