Portrait of a Nuer youth

Portrait of a Nuer youth
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.112.1 - 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.26
Previous Other Number:
3


Accession Number:
1998.355.112.2
Description:
An upper body full face portrait of an initiated youth holding a slender stick (possibly a spear), with blocks of cictrization on his body. Evans-Pritchard spent about seven weeks in total in western Nuerland country during Oct-Nov 1936, mostly at Nyueny village among the Leek Karlual.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Lang
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , ?Weapon , Body Art
Keyword:
?Spear , Body Art Skin
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] - 26. Lang youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 W. Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/26"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [1/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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