Portrait of a Shilluk youth
110 x 77 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining & Residual chemical staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.SH.23; EP.M.83
Previous Other Number:
20; 223
Accession Number:
1998.348.23
Description:
An upper body physical anthropology portrait of a young man posed for the camera in front of a cloth backdrop against a brick wall, the number '20' attached to the sheet for identification purposes.
He is wearing a small horn container (?for snuff) around his neck.
The Seligmans identified this youth as an 'average' Shilluk physical type in their publication.
Photographer:
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Date of Photo:
1910 circa
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile
Group:
Shilluk
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced (cropped) as one of a number of types shown in Plate III (facing page 38) of C.G.
& B.
Seligman's
Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
(London, Routledge 1932), with the caption 'Shilluk types.
no.1 average ...' [Chris Morton 16/3/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p.
98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S.
SUDAN, DARFUNG.
VARIOUS TRIBES.
Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.
Notes on card mount ms pencil - "SS & RCS 8.89"
Notes on card mount ms pencil - "SS & RCS 8.89"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 16/3/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
