Nuer thorntree
58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining left hand side [EE 2/87]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.IX.46
Previous Other Number:
7 [1]
Accession Number:
1998.355.420.2
Description:
A section of a thorntree, with Evans-Pritchard's canvas tent pitched just the other side, visible under the branches.
This image seems to have been taken during treks across western Nuerland in 1936.
Evans-Pritchard took many photographs of the natural environment to record changes in the pastoral Nilotic economy throughout the annual cycle.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer
Notes:
There appears to be three Rolleiflex films identified as film 7, which I have identified according to differences in notation on the print reverse as well as image content.
[CM 29/10/2007]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Vegetation , Expedition , Shelter
Keyword:
Tent
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 IX, ms ink] - 46. Tree
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "7 W. Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IX/46"
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book IX, ms ink] - 46. Tree
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "7 W. Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER IX/46"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [16/7/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
