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:
1998.341.238.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.238.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Condition:
Residual chemical staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.238
Previous Other Number:
52 2 (+43)
Accession Number:
1998.341.238.2
Description:
A man (identified as Windis or Zori, a subject of Gami the commoner governor) sitting on the ground within a homestead, operating an iwa (rubbing-board) oracle.
A gourd dish containing water used for wetting the lid of the rubbing board sits alongside.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1928
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)"] - 238. Man (Windis) consulting iwa oracle. 52/2 (+43)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS lower LHS & middle & small amount lower RHS Fading SS overall
Notes on print rev. m/s pencil - " Windis vuru game " [i.e. Windis a subject of Game]
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)"] - 238. Man (Windis) consulting iwa oracle. 52/2 (+43)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS lower LHS & middle & small amount lower RHS Fading SS overall
Notes on print rev. m/s pencil - " Windis vuru game " [i.e. Windis a subject of Game]
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.
On page 212 E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard writes briefly about the old commoner governor called Game recorded here. I have standardised the commoner governor's name as Gami as it appears this way in many captions as well as in The Azande (OUP 1971).
[Chris Morton 5/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 27/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
