Nuer youths with harpoons

84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.579.1 - Negative film nitrate , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))

Condition:

blue crop line right hand side [Chris Morton 23/8/2004] Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XII.62

Previous Other Number:

28 5 (A214)

Accession Number:

1998.355.579.2

Description:

A full length group portrait of uninitiated youths holding harpoons and wearing light coloured waistbands. Evans-Pritchard spent some 4 weeks in 1935 among the Eastern Jikany tribes who live around the mouth of the Nyanding, a tributary of the Sobat.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River mouth

Group:

Nuer Eastern Jikany

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Toilet

Keyword:

Spear , Hair

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 XII, ms ink] - 62. Boys

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "28 5 A214" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XII/62"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]