Nuer men
82 x 52 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining [?EE 1987]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.XII.72
Previous Other Number:
24
Accession Number:
1998.355.586
Description:
A group of men and youth sitting outside the entrance to a windscreen.
One of the youths in the centre is playing a harp (called thom by Tucker), and the other is wearing thiau armrings.
One man is smoking a pipe.
The image was taken by A.
N.
Tucker, who worked as Linguistic Expert of non-Arabic languages for the Sudan Government from 1929 to 1931.
Evans-Pritchard met Tucker when the latter visited his fieldsite in 1930, after which time he gave him these prints.
Photographer:
Archibald Norman Tucker
Date of Photo:
1929 - 1931
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Jonglei Pibor River Rumyiri
Group:
Nuer ?Lou
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Narcotic , Ornament , Music
Keyword:
Cattle Camp , Pipe , Ornament Arm , Musical Instrument String
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] - 72. Youths (A.N.T.- Print only)
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Rumyiri Notice the nasser method of playing the thom."
Manual Catalogues [index taken from album book XII, ms ink] - 72. Youths (A.N.T.- Print only)
Note on print reverse ms ink - "Rumyiri Notice the nasser method of playing the thom."
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [23/8/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
