Zande girls
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.372.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.372.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.372
Previous Other Number:
31 6 [frame 2]
Accession Number:
1998.341.372.1
Description:
Two young females outside a homestead, possibly in a posed position.
They are wearing a girdle of leaves tied before and behind, as well as a piece of barkcloth as an apron (agbaya).
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:
Clothing
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)"] - 372. Girls. 31/6
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)"] - 372. Girls. 31/6
Other Information:
A very similar image taken at the same time is reproduced as Plate 1 (facing page 94) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's Man and Woman among the Azande (Faber & Faber 1974), with the caption "Two girls".
It is also reproduced as part of the dust jacket design. In Man and Woman among the Azande (Faber & Faber 1974, page 113) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes in a footnote that 'The ordinary dress of women was a girdle supporting bunches of leaves before and behind.
Some of the girls had taken to wearing a strip of barkcloth in place of leaves. See also [1998.341.268]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
