Termite mound in Zandeland
90 x 63 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.374.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.374.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.374
Previous Other Number:
31 6 [frame 11]
Accession Number:
1998.341.374.2
Description:
Termites were commonly gathered for oil by people within a territory surrounding the homestead, with rights to gather in certain areas agreed between neighbours.
Such mounds were also used for consulting the termite oracle (dakpa), where two sticks are left half entered into the mound, the answer to a question being given by which stick is nibbled.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Fauna , Natural History
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)"] - 374. Termite mound (abisa). 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)"] - 374. Termite mound (abisa). 31/6
Other Information:
Note that this print has a white border and is somewhat smaller than the negative. I have been unable to find a dictionary entry for the term abisa, which presumably refers to termitaria.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
