Zande medicines in homestead
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.15.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.15.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.15
Previous Other Number:
92 4 (62) [frame 7]
Accession Number:
1998.341.15.2
Description:
Magico-religious medicinal plants growing under the eaves of a hut.
In the foreground sarawa plants used to assist agriculture, in the background ranga ambiri, against wild animals.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XXVIII (facing page 438) in
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP, 1937), with the caption "Medicines growing in the shelter of a veranda.
In the foreground are
sarawa
plants (food-medicine), and in the background
ranga ambiri
(medicine for carnivora)."
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Religion , Ritual , [Agriculture and Horticulture] , [Hunting]
Keyword:
Plant
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - [1966.27.21] G PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - S.
SUDAN, AZANDE TRIBE.
Box of negatives in envelopes.
Nos.
1 - 400
Added Accession Book Entry - [In pencil in column] Catalogue room.
[1966.27.23] G PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - S. SUDAN, AZANDE TRIBE. Box of prints in envelopes, nos. 1 - 400 (prints of negatives in 1966.27.21)
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Zande Photographs (E-P)"] - 15. Hunting and agricultural medicines. (Outside hut). 92/4 (62).
Added Accession Book Entry - [In pencil in column] Catalogue room.
[1966.27.23] G PROFESSOR E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST. OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD. OXFORD - S. SUDAN, AZANDE TRIBE. Box of prints in envelopes, nos. 1 - 400 (prints of negatives in 1966.27.21)
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Zande Photographs (E-P)"] - 15. Hunting and agricultural medicines. (Outside hut). 92/4 (62).
Other Information:
In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP, 1937) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard quotes (page 438) a rite concerning agricultural medicines thus: "This medicine which I place in my cultivations-whatever witch comes to injure my cultivations, to harm my food-plants so that they will not flourish, may he die."
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 7/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
