Nuer youth praising ox

Nuer youth praising ox
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.2.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.I.4
Previous Other Number:
3


Accession Number:
1998.355.2.2
Description:
An upper body full face portrait of a youth (?identified as Twaring) singing in praise of his favourite ox, with arms raised holding a club in imitation of its horns. He seems to also have a section of dotted scarification on the left side of his chest. Evans-Pritchard spent about seven weeks in total in Nuer Leek country, during Oct-Nov 1936, mostly at Nyueny village among the Karlual section.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda ?Nyueny village
Group:
Nuer Leek Karlual
NamedPerson:
?Twaring
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VII (facing page 84) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's Kinship and Marriage Among the Nuer (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990 [1951]) with the caption 'A youth singing in praise of his ox. His arms are raised in imitation of its horns.' [Chris Morton 17/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Weapon , Body Art , Body Language
Keyword:
Club , Body Art Skin
Activity:
Gesturing Hand
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] - 4. Twaring - Karlual

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 W. Nuer [numerous printer's marks]" & print front border ms ink "NUER I/4"
Other Information:
I have assumed that the word Twaring is a personal name, but there is a slight possibility that it is a place name. [Chris Morton 17/5/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [17/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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