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:
1998.355.114.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

faded [26/11/86 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.III.30

Previous Other Number:

8 [1]

Accession Number:

1998.355.114.2

Description:

A three-quarter length full face portrait of a youth holding a spear, with white ash lines painted on his chest and face. Other youths stand immediately behind him and a homestead is visible on the horizon.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Ler

Group:

Nuer Leek Karlual

Notes:

There would seem to be three Rolleiflex films identified as no. 8 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 8 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content. [CM 26/10/2007]

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] - 30. Karlual youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "8 Ler" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/30"

Other Information:

Another portrait of a youth from Ler on this film is described as Dok rather than Leek Karlual. It is possible that E-P was uncertain of the location when either anotating the print reverse or the album index. [Chris Morton 1/6/2004]

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [1/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]