Portrait of a Nuer youth
84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch) | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.527.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))
1998.355.527.2 - Print gelatin silver , (84 x 57 mm (3.25 x 2.25 inch))
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XI.59
Previous Other Number:
02 5
Accession Number:
1998.355.527.1
Description:
A portrait of a seated youth showing clear scarification lines of initiation on the forehead, with items of luggage nearby.
The location is probably near the landing stage on the Nile at Adok, where Evans-Pritchard landed in October of 1936 after having completed a survey of the Luo of Kenya.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1936 October
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Adok
Group:
Nuer ?Dok
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology
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 XI, ms ink] - 59. Youth
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XI, ms ink] - 59. Youth
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [4/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
