Nuer women dancing

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.545.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

Sulphide staining left hand side [7/89 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XI.98

Previous Other Number:

02 4

Accession Number:

1998.355.545.2

Description:

Two women wearing skirts (?married) and holding dance-sticks kneeling next to a man obscured in front of them who is holding spears. They are described as Western Jikany and in related images as Jikul, which is lineage or clan name not associated with one tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country, but also elsewhere such as Western Jikany.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jikul country

Group:

Nuer Jikul

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Dance , Social Life

Keyword:

Dance Accessory

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 XI, ms ink] - 98. dancing

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 4 W.Jikany" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XI/98"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [5/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]