Austrian Count in Evans-Pritchard's tent
100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.31
Previous Other Number:
31 7
Accession Number:
1998.346.31.2
Description:
A man wearing a pith helmet and smoking a pipe sitting in a camp chair under the canopy of Evans-Pritchard's tent with a map open on his lap.
He is identified as an Austrian Count.
Although this might suggest that he could well be the Austro-Hungarian noble László Almásy (1895-1951) who made several trips through Sudan in motor vehicle during this period, it seems that he was in Sudan in 1929, before Evans-Pritchard's Nuer fieldwork.
The co-incidence is strong, but there are also differences in appearance, which seems to point to another Austrian Count.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile or Jonglei
Group:
European Austrian
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Furniture Dwelling , Narcotic
Keyword:
Tent , Pipe
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 1966.27.17 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled.
(some missing).
Nos.
1 - 213.
(prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of prints each in separate envelope.
Nos.
1 - 213.
(negatives in 1966.27.17.)
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 31. Austrian count in my tent. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "31/7 31 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 31. Austrian count in my tent. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "31/7 31 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
