Zande beer preparation
64 x 41 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.240.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)
1998.341.240.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.240
Previous Other Number:
32 2 (76)
Accession Number:
1998.341.240.1
Description:
Women spreading out dampened malted eleusine to germinate on banana leaves, covering them with further banana leaves to protect them from the sun, ready for the next stage of beer (gbangara) preparation.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Food and Drink , Plant Use
Keyword:
Foodstuff , Plant
Activity:
Brewing
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)"] - 240. Preparations in beer brewing (small size). 32/2 (76)
Note on negative m/s ink - "76"
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)"] - 240. Preparations in beer brewing (small size). 32/2 (76)
Note on negative m/s ink - "76"
Other Information:
In their Zande and English Dictionary (London, The Sheldon Press 1952 [1931], page 43) Canon & Mrs E.C.
Gore note 'Gbangara, n., a red beer, obtained from eleusine grain.' In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 79) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'I had accompanied Kisanga to the stream which ran near by our settlement to watch him preparing malted grain for beer-making.
After eleusine has been threshed the seed is placed in baskets and immersed in water for a time.
It is then laid out on banana-leaves to germinate, and while this process is taking place more leaves are put over it to protet it from the sun.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 27/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
