Portrait of a Zande man
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Residual chemical staining, silver sulphide staining overall [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.219
Previous Other Number:
31 1
Accession Number:
1998.341.219
Description:
A profile portrait of a man (identified as Kuagbiaru, a courtier).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Kuagbiaru
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate IVa (facing page 46) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP 1937), with the caption "Kuagbiaru"
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology
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)"] - 219. Koagbiaro (side face). 31/1
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS (slight) middle RHS SSS overall 8.89"
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)"] - 219. Koagbiaro (side face). 31/1
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS (slight) middle RHS SSS overall 8.89"
Other Information:
Biographical Information - In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 184) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'My informant Kuagbiaru, had the same detached viewpoint [on the activities of abinza] as a result of even closer association with court life.' Kuagbiaru is noted as an important informant in several other places in this volume (see index). See also [1998.341.237]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 23/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
