Consulting the Zande iwa oracle
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.218.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.218.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Condition:
Residual chemical staining/ overall sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.218
Previous Other Number:
52 2 (+38)
Accession Number:
1998.341.218.2
Description:
A man (identified as Windis or Zori) sitting on the ground within a homestead, operating an iwa (rubbing-board) oracle.
Another rubbing-board can be seen nearby, alongside a gourd dish containing water used in wetting the lid of the rubbing board.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
?1928 - 1929
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Windis
Notes:
Related images of Windis are published in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article "Oracle Magic of the Azande"
Sudan Notes and Records
, Vol.XI, 1928, thereby providing a terminus ante quem.
[CM 10/10/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Religion , Clothing Headgear
Keyword:
Oracle Divination
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)"] - 218. Man (Windis consulting iwa oracle). 52/2 (+38)
Notes on print/mount - "Windis"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS Upper Middle, RHS Upper + LHS middle, lower. Overall SS. Fading lower RHS-LHS "N/N Windis" 8.89"
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)"] - 218. Man (Windis consulting iwa oracle). 52/2 (+38)
Notes on print/mount - "Windis"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS Upper Middle, RHS Upper + LHS middle, lower. Overall SS. Fading lower RHS-LHS "N/N Windis" 8.89"
Other Information:
Windis is shown operating the rubbing board in Plates XXIVa & b (facing page 364) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937), with a detailed description of the author's observation of Windis' operation of the oracle throughout pages 359-374.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 23/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
