Zande stool carver
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.309
Previous Other Number:
31 6 [frame 6]
Accession Number:
1998.341.309
Description:
A man (identified as Kisanga) sitting on the ground carving a stool with an adze.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Kisanga
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XII (facing page 138) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP 1937), with the caption "Kisanga making stool" [CM 11/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Carving , Tool
Keyword:
Adze
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)"] - 309. Kisanga making stool. 31/6
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)"] - 309. Kisanga making stool. 31/6
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP, 1937, page 98) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that "the wooden stool which is old Mbomu is that called zagbali, the simplest of their stools.' Also, on page 66 he notes that 'one of my chief informants, Kisanga, was a skilled woodcarver, one of the finest carvers in the whole kingdom of Gbudwe.' There are other numerous references to Kisanga throughout the book, perhaps in part due to one revealing footnote on page 242, which reads 'The ubiquitous Kisanga is here again playing a role [at Kamanga's ritual binza initiation] which he is not qualified to play.
He always obtruded himself as an actor in whatever activity happened to be going on.' [CM 11/8/2005] See also [1998.341.27 & .100]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 31/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
