Portrait of Zande Prince's son
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.308.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.308.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.308
Previous Other Number:
A.III 2 (96)
Accession Number:
1998.341.308.1
Description:
Portrait of a man (identified as Kpakiti, a son of Prince Bavongara, son of King Gbudwe) wearing a decorated straw hat and seated in a cane chair, arm outstretched.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Kpakiti wiri Bavongara
Notes:
Three photographs from the A.III film (exposures 6,7,8) [1998.341.521,.523 & .525] were evidently taken just before the one published (exposure 9) as Plate II in Evans-Pritchard's article "The Dance"
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
, Vol.1, No.4 (Oct., 1928) p.456, with the caption "Part of the Crowd".
This article drew upon his first fieldwork expedition of 1927.
[Chris Morton 11/10/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Furnishings , Clothing Headgear
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)"] - 308. Chief's son (Pakiti wili Bavungara). 96 (A.III/2)
Note on negative m/s ink - "AIII-2"
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)"] - 308. Chief's son (Pakiti wili Bavungara). 96 (A.III/2)
Note on negative m/s ink - "AIII-2"
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 99) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Over forty years ago, in my time, some of the nobles were using cane chairs modelled on the European deck-chair.' [Chris Morton 13/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 31/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
