Nuer hippo hunting
84 x 52 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Print gelatin silver , Paper Velox
Condition:
Sulphide staining right hand side [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XII.63
Previous Other Number:
29
Accession Number:
1998.355.580
Description:
Looking across the Nile at evening towards a dug-out canoe being punted by one man with another sitting at the opposite end.
The image was taken by A.
N.
Tucker, who worked as Linguistic Expert of non-Arabic Languages for the Sudan Government from 1929 to 1931.
Evans-Pritchard met Tucker when the latter visited his fieldsite in 1930, after which time he gave him these prints.
Tucker's note on the print suggests that the men in the boat are looking for a hippo spotted or shot at by Evans-Pritchard.
Photographer:
Archibald Norman Tucker
Date of Photo:
1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Yoinyang
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
?Hunting , Navigation
Keyword:
Boat Dug-out , Rivers & Streams
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] - 63. Evening scene (A.N.T.)
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Yoinyang Looking for your hippo" & ms pencil "29"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XII, ms ink] - 63. Evening scene (A.N.T.)
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Yoinyang Looking for your hippo" & ms pencil "29"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
