Sobat River

Sobat River
40 x 30 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.25.2 - Print 35mm contact , (40 x 30 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.25
Previous Other Number:
5


Accession Number:
1998.346.25.1
Description:
A woman with a small child sitting next to the Sobat River with others walking nearby. On the far bank can just be made out the huts of a Nuer cattle camp. The Sobat River marked the boundary between two Nuer tribes: the Lou on the south bank and the Gaajok tribe (Eastern Jikany) on the north.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Topography , Settlement
Keyword:
Rivers & Streams , Cattle Camp
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 1966.27.17 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled. (some missing). Nos. 1 - 213. (prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of prints each in separate envelope. Nos. 1 - 213. (negatives in 1966.27.17.)

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 25. Sobat River (poor photo). (S.) [Small size]

Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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