- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- A group portrait of three ash-covered Nuer boys standing in a homestead, with some cattle and a hut visible behind them. Young children and their mothers were often the last to leave the villages in the dry season, joining the youths at cattle camps near rivers or other permanent water sites at the height of the drought. Boys helped around the home by gathering cow dung fuel and milking.
- Geographical reference
- Unity State or Jonglei or Upper Nile
- Cultural groups
- Nuer
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 1930 - 1931
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1966
- Photographic process
- Negative film nitrate
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 100 x 75 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1998.346.54.1 Previous PRM number: EP.N.54 Previous other number: 31 7
Search terms: Physical Anthropology, Settlement, Animal Husbandry
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