Zande granary
140 x 80 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.759.2 - Print gelatin silver , (140 x 80 mm)
1998.341.759.2 - Print gelatin silver , (140 x 80 mm)
Condition:
Damaged strip in centre [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.759
Previous Other Number:
51 10 (+49)
Accession Number:
1998.341.759.1
Description:
A woman sitting beneath a household granary or gbamu constructed using wickerwork for the base and with a movable thatched roof to access eleusine or other crops.
It is raised from the floor on a platform to avoid pests, which also provides an everyday shaded area for social activities.
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:
Shelter
Keyword:
Building Storage
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)
Note on negative m/s ink - "+49"
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)
Note on negative m/s ink - "+49"
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 91) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that '[e]very Zande householder today has a granary with a movable roof, called gbamu, for storing his Eleusine...This type of granary is said to have been borrowed, though a very long time ago, like the culture of eleusine itself, from the Amiangba.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 9/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
