Portrait of Nuer youths
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.165.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 54 mm )
1998.355.165.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 54 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IV.33
Previous Other Number:
8 [1]
Accession Number:
1998.355.165.1
Description:
A dark image of five boys holding harpoons, with a boy to the left apparently holding his harpoon aloft to show a fish that he has speared with it, presumably from the waters behind them.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler
Group:
Nuer Dok
Notes:
There would seem to be three Rolleiflex films identified as no.
8 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 8 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content.
[CM 26/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Fishing , Weapon
Keyword:
Fish , Harpoon
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 IV, ms ink] - 33. Boys
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IV, ms ink] - 33. Boys
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [14/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
