Portrait of Nuer youths

Portrait of Nuer youths
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.104.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Condition:
fading right hand side [26/11/86 EE]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.III.10
Previous Other Number:
41 5


Accession Number:
1998.355.104.2
Description:
An upper body group portrait of three initiated youths wearing head and neck ornaments, the one to the left wearing a European comb as a neck ornament. It was probably taken during July 1935 whilst Evans-Pritchard spent 4 weeks at the mouth of the Nyanding River among the Eastern Jikany, especially at Mancom village, the home of his servant Tiop.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom
Group:
Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Head , Ornament Neck
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 1966.27.1-16 S. SUDAN. NUER TRIBE. Sixteen negative albums containing negatives and prints of photographs taken by donor during field-work. All listed in albums. Added Accession Book Entry - [p. 98 in right hand column, in pencil] Catalogue room.

Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book III, ms ink] - 10. Gaajok youths

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 5" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/10"

Other Information:
The youth to the left can be seen in Plate I (facing page 8) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Youth (Eastern Gaajok) fastening giraffe-hair necklace on friend'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [26/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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