Portrait of a Nuer youth
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.341.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.341.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.VII.87
Previous Other Number:
28 (A222)
Accession Number:
1998.355.341.1
Description:
A head and shoulders portrait of an initiated youth with ash decoration smeared in a line across his lips and cheeks.
Based on similar images this was probably taken at the American Mission at Nasir, which Evans-Pritchard revisited during his short period of fieldwork in 1935.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Nasir
Group:
Nuer ?Gaajok
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Ornament , Body Art
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Ear , Body Art Paint
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 VII, ms ink] - 87. Youth
Note on negative ms ink - "A222"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book VII, ms ink] - 87. Youth
Note on negative ms ink - "A222"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [6/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
