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:
1998.355.429.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.355.429.2 - Print gelatin silver , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IX.63
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.355.429.1
Description:
A relaxed upper body portrait of a youth sitting on the ground, his body and face covered with ashes that accent his gar initiation marks on the head.
The location is western Nuerland where Evans-Pritchard spent 5 weeks in 1936.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer ?Leek Karlual
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Body Art , Body Language
Keyword:
Body Art Skin
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 IX, ms ink] - 63. Youth
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IX, ms ink] - 63. Youth
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
