Zande courtier with family
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.270
Previous Other Number:
47 2 (98) [frame 9]
Accession Number:
1998.341.270.2
Description:
Group portrait of Ongosi, a courtier of Prince Basongoda's court (the grandfather of Prince Ngindö, who died in 1914 in a colonial prison in Wau), with some of his wives and children, one of them wearing a white bead necklet.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Ongosi
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate VII (facing page 76) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP 1937), with the caption "Ongosi, a Zande courtier, with some of his wives and children"
Reproduced as Plate LVII (facing page 498) IN C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption ' Ongasi , wives and family'. [CM 11/8/2005]
Reproduced as Plate LVII (facing page 498) IN C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption ' Ongasi , wives and family'. [CM 11/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck
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)"] - 270. Ongosi and family group. 47/2 (98)
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)"] - 270. Ongosi and family group. 47/2 (98)
Other Information:
Biographical Information - In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 184) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Ongosi is a man who from boyhood has been closely associated with court life and has largely acquired the detached attitude of the nobles towards 'Zande' (commoner) practices.' Elsewhere (pp.69, 399) he notes that Ongosi was one of his closest Zande friends. In C.G.
& B.
Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932 page 497) they note that 'The Ambamu certainly practised cannibalism 60 or 70 years ago, and Ongosi (the patriarch of the photograph reproduced on Plate LVII) had in his youth seen baskets of human arms and legs prepared for food.' See also [1998.341.204]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 29/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
