Zande girl with mortar
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.184.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.184.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.184
Previous Other Number:
4 (174) [frame 12]
Accession Number:
1998.341.184.1
Description:
A girl (identified as Nazigirisi) bruising eleusine with a pestle (wiri sangu) and mortar (sangu), behind a hut, with a small monkey at her feet.
This crop was once the most important base for porridge and beer, but has been displaced to some extent by manioc, a highly drought and pest resistent tuber, which is however somewhat less nutrious than flour produced from grain such as eleusine.
The hut could possibly be a sleeping hut for older boys (possibly type known as barumai).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Nazigirisi
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Food and Drink , Domestic Life
Keyword:
Building House , Crop , Animal Monkey
Activity:
Food Preparing
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)"] - 184. Girl (Nazigirisi) bruising eleusine in mortar. 4(174)
Note on negative m/s ink - "174"
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)"] - 184. Girl (Nazigirisi) bruising eleusine in mortar. 4(174)
Note on negative m/s ink - "174"
Other Information:
See also [1998.341.222 & .325] E-P records her name in several different ways, but I have kept to Nazigirisi for the sake of consistency.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
