Nuer kraal

58 x 55 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.743.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

fading (overexposed?) [EE 1989]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.XV.86

Previous Other Number:

43 2 (A80)

Accession Number:

1998.355.743.2

Description:

A dark image of cattle standing in a kraal with a byre (luak) and huts in the background at Yakwach on the Sobat River, which Evans-Pritchard revisited in 1935. Evans-Pritchard notes that this visit to the village was in the rainy season and that away from the raised mound to the rear of the village the swamps after rain virtually isolated the site.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1935 July

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Upper Nile Sobat River Yakwach

Group:

Nuer Lou

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Settlement , Animal Husbandry , Shelter

Keyword:

Building Animals , Animal Cattle

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 XV, ms ink] - 86. kraal

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "43 2 A80" & print front border ms ink - "NUER XV/86"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [6/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]