Nuer youth tying necklace
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
blue crop line left hand side [Chris Morton 19/5/2004]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.I.32
Previous Other Number:
41 5
Accession Number:
1998.355.16.2
Description:
An upper body portrait of a smiling youth wearing head and arm ornaments tying a giraffe-hair necklace at the back of a friend's neck.
The youth is looking towards the camera but not at Evans-Pritchard but rather to someone over his shoulder.
The youths are probably seated on the ground since a leaning spear to the left suggests a ground level not far below the frame, with Evans-Pritchard's Rolleiflex camera at chest height and angled down slightly it gives the image a proximity and intimacy not found in many of his earlier photographs.
It was probably taken during July 1935 whilst Evans-Pritchard spent 4 weeks at the mouth of the Nyanding River among the Jikany, especially at Mancom village, the home of his servant Tiop-Lier.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Nyanding River (mouth) Mancom
Group:
Nuer Eastern Jikany Gaajok
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as 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' [CM 09/05/2006]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament , Social Life
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , 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 I, ms ink] - 32. Youth - E. Jikany
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 5" & print front border ms ink - "NUER I/32"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book I, ms ink] - 32. Youth - E. Jikany
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "41 5" & print front border ms ink - "NUER I/32"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [19/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
