Nuer ox with trained horn

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.797.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XVI.90

Previous Other Number:

4 [2]

Accession Number:

1998.355.797.2

Description:

A profile of an impressive ox in Western Nuerland with a trained left horn curving over its muzzle (known as ma gut), a process carried out by by Nuer men by cutting away at one side of the horn on their favourite beasts, for aesthetically pleasing effects.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer

Notes:

There are 18 Rolleiflex exposures labeled as film number '4' – comparison of the number 4s on the print reverse however shows that they fall into two sets of nine negatives, the gorot series and this series. [CM 19/10/2007]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Animal Husbandry

Keyword:

Animal Cattle

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] - 90. magud ox

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "4 Nuer cow" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XVI/90"

Recorder:

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