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Nuer scarification marks

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head and shoulders profile portrait of an initiated man with heavy lines of scarification on the forehead. The operation (gar) is a severe one which causes much blood loss, across the forehead from ear to ear. Boys were normally initiated between the ages of 14-16, and a group initiated during a number of successive years belong to an age-set. After initiation a youth is prohibited from milking, able to marry, gains a spear and an ox from which he takes his ox-name, and was able to go on cattle raids against the Dinka.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuer scarification marks

Zande man playing kundi instrument

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A portrait of a seated man (identified as a subject of Badinda, probably a local governor) playing a thumb-piano instrument known as a kundi.
Country location: South Sudan
Zande man playing kundi instrument

Zande magic whistle

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man (identified as Kamanga, one of Evans-Pritchard's servants) posed blowing a magic whistle (kura). Such whistles are mostly worn about the body and are used for a variety of purposes, such as to ward off witchcraft. They are made from plants and horns with magical associations, such as zerengbondo, a type of creeper.
Country location: South Sudan
Zande magic whistle

Evans-Pritchard's Zande servant Mekana

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head and shoulders full-face portrait of Mekana (Zingbondo), Evans-Pritchard's personal servant and a son of the courtier and informant Ongosi.
Country location: South Sudan
Evans-Pritchard's Zande servant Mekana

Portrait of an Ingessana man

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head-and-shoulders rear view of a man wearing a bead necklace (given to him by Evans-Pritchard) with an overcoat hung as a backdrop. The man is identified as Dal, Evans-Pritchard's chief informant among the Ingessana.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of an Ingessana man

Fishing in Sobat River

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man described by Evans-Pritchard as an 'Anuak-Nuer' i.e. of mixed parentage, casting a fishing net into a river, probably the Sobat River near the wood station also photographed on the same film.
Country location: South Sudan
Fishing in Sobat River
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