Evans-Pritchard with Mekana and Kamanga

104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.468.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.A.468

Previous Other Number:

46 (+65) [frame 7]

Accession Number:

1998.341.468.1

Description:

A group portrait with Evans-Pritchard in the centre, with his hands holding the necks of his servant Mekana (left) and Kamanga, described as his cook and house-boy. According to Evans-Pritchard both were sons of courtiers and therefore members of the Zande elite. Kamanga became a binza or witchdoctor initiate as Evans-Pritchard attempted to gain more information about the witchdoctor corporation.

Photographer:

Unknown, for E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1927 - 1930

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio

Group:

Zande

NamedPerson:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mekana, Kamanga

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Clothing , Body Language , Colonial , Narcotic

Keyword:

Pipe

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)"] - 468. Self and Makana and Kamanga. 46 (+65)

Note on negative m/s ink - "+65"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 12/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]