Nuer spirit-shrine
97 x 72 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.96.1 - Negative film nitrate , (97 x 72 mm)
1998.346.96.1 - Negative film nitrate , (97 x 72 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.96
Previous Other Number:
A6 (76 1)
Accession Number:
1998.346.96.2
Description:
A riek spirit-shrine post in the foreground set in the earth near a hut, with a reed fence beyond.
Near it is a swept area with ?mat rolls placed around it and a pile of stones in the middle.
This domestic ceremony place may have been made for a particular spirit that was causing illness and that needed sacrifice to appease it.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930 - 1936
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda Bahr-el-Ghazal Pakur village
Group:
Nuer
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Religion , Ritual
Keyword:
Shrine
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)"] - 96. Place of ceremony. (L.) [Large size] (A.6)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "76/1 A6 96 "
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Nuer Photographs (E-P)"] - 96. Place of ceremony. (L.) [Large size] (A.6)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "76/1 A6 96 "
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [7/4/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
