Nuer carriers
61 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.34
Previous Other Number:
32 1 (83)
Accession Number:
1998.346.34.2
Description:
A Nuer man stands with his arms behind his back, wearing a waist string with ?tooth ornamentation, looking with others who are seated towards a man (almost certainly E-P's Zande servant Mekana) working on some of Evans-Pritchard's baggage.
It is possible that this image was taken during Evans-Pritchard's first Nuer field period in 1930 near Pakur village close to Yoinyang.
He notes that it took some time for his two Zande servants to join him before they then motored off to Muot dit.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Pakur village
Group:
Nuer ?Leek
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Expedition , Ornament
Keyword:
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)"] - 34. Male type (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "32/1 83 34 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 34. Male type (S.) [small size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "32/1 83 34 "
Other Information:
In The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940) page 10, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'next day was devoted to erecting my tent and trying to persuade the Nuer, through my Atwot servant who spoke Nuer and some Arabic, to remove my abode to the vicinity of shade and water, which they refused to do.
Fortunately a youth, Nhial, who has since been my constant companion in Nuerland, attached himself to me and after twelve days persuaded his kinsmen to carry my goods to the edge of the forest where they lived.' [Chris Morton 6/4/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
