Portrait of a Nuer youth

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.604.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIII.8

Previous Other Number:

04 4

Accession Number:

1998.355.604.2

Description:

A three-quarter length portrait of a youth wearing a body cloth and ash-plastered hair standing in front of a woven grass fence, porbably at a mission or government station. This maybe the American Mission building at Nasir.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Upper Nile Nasir

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Toilet , Colonial

Keyword:

Textile , Hair

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 XIII, ms ink] - 8. Youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "04 4" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/8"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [24/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]