Zande homestead
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.80.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.80.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.80
Previous Other Number:
16 3 (F.8) [frame 10]
Accession Number:
1998.341.80.2
Description:
A view of homestead, including a main sleeping hut (of the type known as gbuguru or gbasendeyo) which has clay walls and uprights supported long overhanging eaves, a screen/windbreak and probably a cooking shelter.
Manioc grows in the foreground.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate I (Frontispiece) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Zande Trickster
(Oxford 1967), with the caption "A Zande Homestead"
Reproduced as Plate LVIIIa (facing page 500) IN C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Zande huts and garden". [CM 09/05/2006]
Reproduced as Plate LVIIIa (facing page 500) IN C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Zande huts and garden". [CM 09/05/2006]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Settlement , Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Building House , Building Storage , Windbreak , Garden
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)"] - 80. Hut, granaries and section of gardens 16/3 (F.8.)
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)"] - 80. Hut, granaries and section of gardens 16/3 (F.8.)
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In The Azande (OUP, 1971), page 89, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'the old Mbomu walled dwelling hut, which is still the most usual habitation in Gbudwe's old kingdom, the gbuguru or gbasendeyo, is a hut with solid mud walls-the only wood used in them being the lintels-but lacking a clay foundation.
My informants added that, compared with today, there were very few of these well-made huts in past times.' In The Heart of Africa (London 1873, vol ii page 287) Georg Schweinfurth notes that 'the conical roofs are higher and more pointed than those of the Bongo and Dinka, having a projection beyond the clay walls of the hut, which affords a good shelter from the rain.
This projection is supported by posts, which give the whole building the semblance of being surrounded by a verandah.
The huts that are used for cooking have roofs still more pointed than those which serve for sleeping.' [Chris Morton 10/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 9/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
