Zande boy making net trap
64 x 41 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.358.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)
1998.341.358.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.358
Previous Other Number:
29 7
Accession Number:
1998.341.358.1
Description:
A boy sitting on the ground weaving a net to catch rats, with another boy standing beside him looking on.
He holds the string taught using a stick in the ground and weaves the net close to his body.
Next to the stick is another net.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 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:
Hunting
Keyword:
Net
Activity:
Weaving
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)"] - 358. Boy making net (for rats). (Small size). 29/7
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)"] - 358. Boy making net (for rats). (Small size). 29/7
Other Information:
see also [1998.341.267] E-P's caption for that image describes the net as for catching pigeons, but it certainly seems to be the same net be worked on as in this image.
It seems more likely from the shape of the net that it is in fact designed as a rat trap rather than a pigeon net.
The boy standing next to him also appears in [1998.341.326]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
