Zande man weaving bag
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.53.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.53.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.53
Previous Other Number:
47 2 (97) [frame 11]
Accession Number:
1998.341.53.1
Description:
Man (identified as wiri Ongosi, i.e.
a son of Ongosi) demonstrating the making of a grass bag, a type with a Mangbetu-style handle known as mongu.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
wiri Ongosi
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Basketry , 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)"] - 53. Man (Wili Ongosi) making a grass bag. 47/2 (97)
Note on negative m/s ink - "97"
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)"] - 53. Man (Wili Ongosi) making a grass bag. 47/2 (97)
Note on negative m/s ink - "97"
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 101) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that "[t]he largest kind of bag (bamangu) is Mbomu, though a specially well-worked handle that sometimes adorns it is copied from the Mangbetu." In their Zande and English Dictionary (London, The Sheldon Press 1952 [1931], page 94) Canon & Mrs E.C.
Gore note 'Mongu, n., bag, pocket, satchel, a bag-shaped basket.' There are probably dialetical differences between the words for bag recorded by E-P and those found in Gore 1952 [1931].
However, since the dictionary was originally compiled during the same period as E-P's fieldwork, and has subsequently been revised and corrected by numerous sources in the Yambio District, I have decided to follow the usage from this source, except where E-P gives additional terms.[Chris Morton 22/10/2003] It seems unlikely that standing is a comfortable or convenient position for bag-making, and so we must assume that E-P has directed the subject to pose in this manner for the photograph.
[Chris Morton 8/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
