Bringing out of newborn Zande baby
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Residual chemical staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.164a
Previous Other Number:
92 3 (21) [frame 7]
Accession Number:
1998.341.164.3
Description:
A woman with a basin of porridge running past the entrance to a hut (smoke in the entranceway) with a group of people at a ceremony to mark the bringing out of a newly born baby.
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:
Ritual , Shelter , Vessel , Fire
Keyword:
Vessel , Building House
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Event:
Ceremony Birth
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)"] - 164. Ceremonial bringing out of baby (shows woman running away with basin of porridge). 92/3 (21)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "rcs 12/11/86 EE"
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)"] - 164. Ceremonial bringing out of baby (shows woman running away with basin of porridge). 92/3 (21)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "rcs 12/11/86 EE"
Other Information:
In Man and Woman among the Azande (Faber & Faber 1974, page 22) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard quotes an informant who states that 'when a woman has borne a child she stays indoors for two or maybe three days till the afterbirth has fallen.
Then early in the morning they prepare to bring the child out.
They go and collect aumugbe, sakperenge and ngbege, and they set light to these woods in the doorway of the hut in which the child is...when they bring the child out of the hut they cook porridge and manioc leaves.' [Chris Morton 16/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 16/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
