Mutilated Zande man
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.434.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.434.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.434
Previous Other Number:
52 (+30) [frame 11]
Accession Number:
1998.341.434.1
Description:
Two men, one of whom has been mutilated as a punishment for adultery by having his hands removed.
He holds a stick over his shoulder with a skin bag (mongu) slung over it.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced (cropped to include mutilate only) as plate 8 in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Man and Woman among the Azande
(Faber & Faber 1974, facing page 111), with the caption "A man mutilated for adultery" [CM 11/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Punishment and Torture , Bag
Keyword:
Bag
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)"] - 434. Mutilated man. +30
Note on negative m/s ink - "+30"
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)"] - 434. Mutilated man. +30
Note on negative m/s ink - "+30"
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In Man and Woman among the Azande (Faber & Faber 1974, page 194) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard quotes an informant who states that 'making love to people's wives was the cause in the past of mutilating people's hands, lips, ears and eye-lids [and genitals].
When a man knew a youth had an affair with his wife he would call together his male kinsmen and they would go stealthily and seize the young man and cut off his hands, ears and lips.
Then they would cut off his genitals so that he would not meddle with people's wives again.' [CM 11/8/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 10/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
