Nuer youth at cattle camp
100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.71
Previous Other Number:
09 (7)
Accession Number:
1998.346.71.2
Description:
An upper body portrait of a male youth (identified as Thoar) with shaved head and ash smeared on his face, probably at the Lou Nuer camp at Yacwac.
Evans-Pritchard spent 3 months at this camp in 1931.
An unmarried Thoar son of Kirkir is mentioned in Evans-Pritchard's kinship diagram of Yakwach camp.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River ?Yakwach
Group:
Nuer Lou
NamedPerson:
Thoar
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament , Body Art
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Body Art Paint , Ornament Ear
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)"] - 71. Thoar. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "09 71 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 71. Thoar. (L.) [large size]
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "09 71 "
Other Information:
The kinship diagram of Yakwach camp is on pages xxvi & xxvii of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990 [1951]).
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 5/4/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
