A Nuer dance

58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.294.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VI.93

Previous Other Number:

64 3 (A146)

Accession Number:

1998.355.294.1

Description:

A line of male dancers with spears, one with ash decoration on his legs, looking towards the camera. The location is Yakwach camp on the Sobat River, which Evans-Pritchard revisited in 1935. Evans-Pritchard noted that in camps such as Yakwach dancing occurred nearly every evening.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935 July

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach

Group:

Nuer Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Dance , Weapon , Body Art

Keyword:

Spear , Body Art Paint

Activity:

Dancing

Event:

Dance

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 VI, ms ink] - 93. Dancing

Note on negative ms ink - "A146"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [1/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]