Portrait of Nuer women

Portrait of Nuer women
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.88.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Condition:
slight staining [20/11/86 EE]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.II.78
Previous Other Number:
02 4


Accession Number:
1998.355.88.2
Description:
A full-length portrait of two women, one married wearing a skirt, with her arm around the shoulder of the younger, a long basket at their feet. They are described as Jikul which is lineage or clan name not associated with one tribal territory, but which was a significant lineage around Nyueny and surrounding villages in Leek country, but also elsewhere such as Western Jikany.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1936 October - November
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda Jikul country
Group:
Nuer Jikul
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Basketry , Body Language
Keyword:
Basket
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 II, ms ink] - 78. Girls

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "02 4 Jikul" & print front border ms ink - "NUER II/78"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [25/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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