Nuer youths singing

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.611.1 - 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.22

Previous Other Number:

41 4

Accession Number:

1998.355.611.2

Description:

A group of youths wearing white body cloths singing from a song-book, held by a youth to the right. The song is probably a Christian hymn, translated into Nuer by the American Mission at Nasir, where the image was probably taken.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile ?Nasir

Group:

Nuer ?Eastern Jikany Gaajok

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Colonial , Religion

Keyword:

Textile , Mission

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] - 22. Youths

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 4" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/22"

Recorder:

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