Nuer women collecting water
103 x 78 mm | Negative glass plate gelatin
Date of Print:
Unknown
Accession Number:
1998.353.62
Description:
A copy negative of a print, almost certainly by the administrator Frank Corfield, showing a woman, girl and small boy carrying gourds and wearing head-carrying rings, probably collecting water from the nearby river.
The woman has cicatrice designs on her abdomen and in wearing a leather apron as well as a cowrie-decorated belt.
This copy negative seems to have been made by Evans-Pritchard sometime in the 1940s or '50s, and the measurements around the print were made in order to produce a negative of the correct size for direct contact printing as a lantern slide, which still exists in Evans-Pritchard box of teaching slides.
Photographer:
Unknown. Copy negative of Frank D. Corfield photograph
Date of Photo:
1940s-1950s (Original Corfield photo 1931-1935)
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile ?Nasir
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Vessel , Ornament , Body Art
Keyword:
Vessel Gourd , Ornament Body , Body Art Skin
Activity:
Domestic Activity
Primary Documentation:
One of five glass quarter-plates found in a Kodak Bromide paper box among the Evans-Pritchard Collection, labeled in pencil 'Nuer Duplicates' [CM 06/01/2006]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 06/01/2006 [Southern Sudan Project]
