Nuerland scenery
58 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.256
Accession Number:
1998.346.256
Description:
A horizon of grass savannah, with smoke rising from grass-firing.
Evans-Pritchard took numerous photographs of vegetation to document changes in the cattle-keeping environment during his fieldwork.
The firing of grass was done to promote new shoots for cattle to eat during the dry season.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935 - 1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan]
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Vegetation , Fire
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.)
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [27/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
