Nuer woman carrying firewood
112 x 80 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
?1920s
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.206
Accession Number:
1998.346.206
Description:
A three-quarter length oblique portrait of a married woman wearing an ?ostrich egg-shell bead waist band fringed with leather strips, holding a bundle of firewood on top of her head.
She is wearing a neck ornament of twisted leather with twisted iron pendants.
This image was given or lent to Evans-Pritchard possibly by C.G.
Seigman and seems to have originated from Yuzbashi (i.e.
Captain) Talib Ismail, a sub-mamur in the Upper Nile Province administration at Akobo from 1920-27.
Photographer:
Talib Ismail
Date of Photo:
1921 - 1927
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile
Group:
Nuer Lou
Notes:
Biographical Information - Talib Ismail is noted in
The Nuer
as the source for two reproduced images.
He was a Sudanese officer who served in Upper Nile Province as a sub-mamur at Akobo from 5 June 1920 to 1 November 1927.
The prints all have the same handwriting on the reverse which may be that of C.G.
Seligman who may have procured them in 1921-2 during travels in the region, and who used some of them in the volume
Pagan Tribes
of 1932.
Curiously they reproduced the images crediting E-P as the source, although E-P rectified this in his own monograph.
It is likely that Evans-Pritchard was given these Nuer prints by his supervisor Seligman.
See correspondence with Douglas Johnson in RDF [Chris Morton 23/4/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection. Probably given to Evans-Pritchard by C. G. & B. Z. Seligman.
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Gathering , Ornament , Clothing Accessory
Keyword:
Fuel , Ornament Neck , Ornament Body
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)"] - 206. Woman carrying firewood (L) [large size].
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Law Lady" [i.e. Lou Nuer] [Chris Morton 12/5/2004]
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 206. Woman carrying firewood (L) [large size].
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Law Lady" [i.e. Lou Nuer] [Chris Morton 12/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [12/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
