Portrait of a Nuer boy

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.562.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

slight Sulphide staining left hand side [7/89 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XII.32

Previous Other Number:

02 4

Accession Number:

1998.355.562.2

Description:

An upper body portrait of a smiling boy standing in the grass with homesteads in the background. He is holding a thin stick, and has a pierced ear with a long ear ornament in it.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jikul country

Group:

Nuer Western Jikany

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Ornament

Keyword:

Ornament Ear

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 XII, ms ink] - 32. boy

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 4 W.Jikany" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XII/32"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [6/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]