Zande pestle and mortar

64 x 41 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.421.2 - Print gelatin silver , (61 x 40 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.A.421

Previous Other Number:

29 5

Accession Number:

1998.341.421.1

Description:

A woman in front of a grass-walled hut (possibly type known as nanduruge) using a mortar (sangu) and a long wooden pestle (wiri sangu), possibly bruising eleusine, with two shallow square baskets (kiaga) for winnowing beside her and a large openweave basket (type known as bangiribambamba) in the entrance to the 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 , Domestic Life , Shelter

Keyword:

Foodstuff , Building House

Activity:

Winnowing , Food Preparing

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)"] - 421. Woman using pestle and mortar. (Small size). 29/5

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 10/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]