Nuer cattle camp
40 x 30 mm | Print 35mm contact
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.170
Previous Other Number:
2
Accession Number:
1998.346.170.2
Description:
A dry season cattle camp with two byres (luak), huts, windbreaks and Evans-Pritchard's tent visible.
As the dry season progressed in about January or February, larger cattle camps such as this with a greater population density would be formed called wec mai.
This image may well be of Yakwach camp on the Sobat river where Evans-Pritchard spent 3 months in 1931 among the Lou Nuer.
The byre (luak) and huts visible in this image could be those of Cam-Carau, the chief man of the settlement, according to Evans-Pritchard's own sketchmap.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1931
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:
Shelter , Settlement
Keyword:
Cattle Camp , Building Animals , Tent
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)"] - 170. Homestead, cattle camp and my tent. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 170 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 170. Homestead, cattle camp and my tent. (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 170 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [19/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]