A Zande boy

A Zande boy
61 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.417
Previous Other Number:
16 (106)


Accession Number:
1998.341.417.2
Description:
A portrait of a small boy (identified as wiri dawiri Bambatu i.e. Bambatu's sister's son) in a hooped shirt, taken from below his eye-level. Other men and boys look on from the frames of the image.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
wiri dawiri Bambatu
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Photography
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)"] - 417. Child (wili dewili Bambatu) (Small size). 16(106)

Other Information:
In their Zande and English Dictionary (London, The Sheldon Press 1952 [1931], page 26) Canon & Mrs E.C. Gore note 'Dawiri, n., sister (only used in relation to a brother).'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 7/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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