Zande grinding stone

64 x 41 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.419.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.A.419

Previous Other Number:

16 (103)

Accession Number:

1998.341.419.1

Description:

A round flat stone, supported by three or four stones beneath, serves as the grinding base, with a smaller flattened stone above as the hand grinder. The set seems to be positioned on a raised clay floor level, possibly under the eaves of a large hut.

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:

Food and Drink , Tool , Domestic Life

Keyword:

Grinder

Activity:

Grinding

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)"] - 419. Grinding stone. (small size). 16 (103)

Note on negative m/s ink - "103"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 7/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]