Zande granary

Zande granary
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.136.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.136
Previous Other Number:
61 1 (116) [frame 8]


Accession Number:
1998.341.136.2
Description:
A large old-style granary (soro) of a homestead, with a ladder reaching up to a door in the raised grain store area which has a large grass finial. The ground floor is walled with woven reeds or grass to form another storage area beneath the grain store.
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:
Food and Drink , Settlement , Religion , Shelter
Keyword:
Crop Millet , Foodstuff , Religious Offering , Building Storage , Storage Crop
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)"] - 136. Old type of granary. 61/1 (116)

Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP, 1971) (page 91) E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that 'The Mbomu granaries were the gburuki and the soro... the soro is an unusually large grain-store with a door instead of a moveable roof..[and] is built by wealthier persons, but neither, in my experience is often to be seen today.' The same compound and granary also feature in [1998.341.19,.111,.134, .235, .331] [Chris Morton 13/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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