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:
1998.355.640.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

?staining right hand side upper Silver sulphide staining left hand side upper [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XIII.80

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.640.2

Description:

A portrait of the rear of a youth walking away from the camera carrying a spear. He appears to be on a dancing ground. Other youths running with spears can just be made out coming across the dance ground. He is described as Jikul which is lineage or clan name not associated with one tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country, but also elsewhere such as Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer Jikul

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Weapon

Keyword:

Spear

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] - 80. boy

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "1 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XIII/80"

Recorder:

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