Zande woman emersing grain for beer brewing
61 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.189
Previous Other Number:
12 1 (23)
Accession Number:
1998.341.189.2
Description:
A woman immersing a basket of malted eleusine grain which is wrapped in banana leaves, an initial stage in the brewing of a beer type known as gbangara, a reddish-coloured eleusine brew.
It is then spread out in the sun to germinate.
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 , Basketry , Water Supply
Keyword:
Foodstuff , Vessel , Rivers & Streams
Activity:
Brewing
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)"] - 189. Preparations in beer brewing (small size). 12/1 (23)
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)"] - 189. Preparations in beer brewing (small size). 12/1 (23)
Other Information:
In their Zande and English Dictionary (London, The Sheldon Press 1952 [1931], page 43) Canon & Mrs E.C.
Gore note 'Gbangara, n., a red beer, obtained from eleusine grain.' In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 79) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'I had accompanied Kisanga to the stream which ran near by our settlement to watch him preparing malted grain for beer-making.
After eleusine has been threshed the seed is placed in baskets and immersed in water for a time.
It is then laid out on banana-leaves to germinate, and while this process is taking place more leaves are put over it to protect it from the sun.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
