Nuer homestead

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.394.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.VIII.94

Previous Other Number:

64 4 (A173)

Accession Number:

1998.355.394.2

Description:

Looking towards a stake walled cattle byre (luak) with extended eaves, and smaller sleeping huts either side. In the kraal in the foreground dung has been spread out in the sun to dry, for use later as fuel. The film number suggests that this homestead was photographed among the Lou, who Evans-Pritchard revisited at Yakwach during the rains in July 1935.

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:

Settlement , Shelter

Keyword:

Building Animals , Building House

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 VIII, ms ink] - 94. kraal

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "64 4 A173" & print front border ms ink - "NUER VIII/94"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [14/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]