Portrait of a Nuer youth

56 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.355.112.1 - Negative film nitrate , (58 x 55 mm )

Condition:

fading right hand side [26/11/86 EE]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.N.III.26

Previous Other Number:

Accession Number:

1998.355.112.2

Description:

An upper body full face portrait of an initiated youth holding a slender stick (possibly a spear), with blocks of cictrization on his body. Evans-Pritchard spent about seven weeks in total in western Nuerland country during Oct-Nov 1936, mostly at Nyueny village among the Leek Karlual.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1936 October - November

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Wahda

Group:

Nuer Lang

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , ?Weapon , Body Art

Keyword:

?Spear , Body Art Skin

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 III, ms ink] - 26. Lang youth

Note on print reverse ms pencil - "3 W. Nuer" & print front border ms ink - "NUER III/26"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton [1/6/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]