Nuer homestead

97 x 72 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.105

Previous Other Number:

B3 (76 3)

Accession Number:

1998.346.105.2

Description:

A view across the cleared area of a village homestead (gol) with cattle lying down in the middle ground and a cattle byre (luak) to the left, a sleeping hut to the right and the cattle byre (luak) of another homestead beyond. In the central cleared area can just be seen a firescreen (buor) against which a cooking-fire is made. Often these firescreens incorporated three humps on the top, and were a symbol of a woman's status as a wife and mother of a household. Sacrifices were often made near to the buor of the homestead.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1930 - 1936

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jonglei Upper Nile

Group:

Nuer

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Settlement , Shelter , Fire , Animal Husbandry

Keyword:

Village , Building Animals , Animal Cattle , Windbreak

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 1966.27.17 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled. (some missing). Nos. 1 - 213. (prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Box of prints each in separate envelope. Nos. 1 - 213. (negatives in 1966.27.17.)

Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 105. Homesteads. (L.) [Large size] (B.3)

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "B3 76/3 105 "

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [13/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]