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:
1998.355.786.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XVI.68

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.786.2

Description:

A full length portrait of an ash-covered youth standing in a homestead looking away from the camera, a younger boy and a man visible to the right of the frame. He is holding a stick with a tassel attached to the top. He is probably a Karlual youth, one of the main sections of the Leek tribe of western Nuerland, and where Evans-Pritchard spent some 7 weeks, mostly at Nyueny village.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village

Group:

Nuer Leek Karlual

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology

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 XVI, ms ink] - 68. youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 W.Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XVI/68"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [8/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]