Nuer cattle camp

40 x 30 mm | Print 35mm contact

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.7

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.346.7.2

Description:

A dry season cattle camp with cattle and a large byre (luak) and three huts 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:

1930 - 1936

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:

Animal Husbandry , Shelter , Settlement

Keyword:

Cattle Camp , Building Animals

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)"] - 7. Cattle camp. (S.) [small size]

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "2 7 "

Other Information:

A sketch map of Yakwach camp appears in The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940) page 18. [Chris Morton 18/3/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [17/3/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]