Bird in Nuerland

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.638.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Sulphide staining left hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIII.76

Previous Other Number:

7 [1]

Accession Number:

1998.355.638.2

Description:

A bird (?African Long-tailed Shrike) with light body and dark head, wings and tail perched in a thorn (probably acacia) tree, in Western Nuerland. Birds were an interest for Evans-Pritchard throughout his life.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda

Notes:

There appears to be three Rolleiflex films identified as film 7, which I have identified according to differences in notation on the print reverse as well as image content. [CM 29/10/2007]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Fauna , Vegetation

Keyword:

Animal Bird

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] - 76. Tree

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "7 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/76"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [26/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]