An upper body full face portrait of an initiated youth with deep gar lines on the forehead, holding a club.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: An upper body full face portrait of an initiated youth with deep gar lines on the forehead, holding a club.
Geographical reference: South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan; Unity State; Ler
Cultural groups: Nuer Dok
Person: Photographer Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard; PRM source Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date / Period: Date of photograph: 10/1936 - 11/1936
Acquisition information: Donated: 1966
Photographic process: Negative film nitrate
Dimensions: Length x Width 58 x 55 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1998.355.94.1 Previous PRM number: EP.N.II.89 Previous other number: 8 [1]
Research and responses: There would seem to be three Rolleiflex films identified as no. 8 in the Nuer series, which I have identified based upon differences in the handwritten style of enumerating the number 8 on the print reverses, as well as on visual content. [CM 26/10/2007]
This youth is also seen in the image [1998.346.341] reproduced as Plate VIII (facing page 68) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer (Oxford University Press, 1940), with the caption 'Sandy ridge with cattle byres on the horizon (Dok)' It is also reproduced as Plate V (facing page 216) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's article Economic Life of the Nuer: Cattle (Part 1), Sudan Notes and Records XX, No.3, 1937, with the caption 'Sandy ridge with homesteads in the background (Duk Country)'. [Chris Morton 26/5/2004]