Savannah in Nuerland
56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.346.338.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
1998.346.338.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.N.338
Accession Number:
1998.346.338.2
Description:
In the distance can be seen three men walking across the open savannah with arms resting on spears across their shoulders, with clumps of grass in the foreground.
We know from a published caption that this image is located somewhere in Lou country in the dry season.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1935
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Jonglei
Group:
Nuer Lou
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XIa (facing page 84) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Nuer
(Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'a.
Open savannah in the dry season (Lou)' [Chris Morton 5/5/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Topography , Vegetation
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 1966.27.17 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of negatives each in separate envelope, labelled.
(some missing).
Nos.
1 - 213.
(prints in box 1966.27.18)...1966.27.18 S.
SUDAN.
NUER TRIBE.
Box of prints each in separate envelope.
Nos.
1 - 213.
(negatives in 1966.27.17.)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - [numerous printer's marks for publication] "3049"
Note on print reverse ms pencil - [numerous printer's marks for publication] "3049"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [5/5/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
