Zande man with spear, bag and whistle
61 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.422
Previous Other Number:
16 (107)
Accession Number:
1998.341.422
Description:
A full length portrait of a man carrying a spear (baso) and a mourner's small grass bag with a shoulder strap (mongu).
Also hung around his shoulder is a magic whistle (kura), which is here identified as being used by a mourner as an action against the witchcraft involved in the death of a relative (vengeance-magic).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XXXIVb, (facing page 542) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP 1937), with the caption "A youth wearing a girdle of mourning and vengeance.
Note his mourner's bag and whistle of vengeance." [CM 11/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Weapon , Religion , Ritual , Basketry
Keyword:
Bag , Spear
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)"] - 422. Man (carrying grass bag and magic whistle of mourner). (Small size). 16(107)
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)"] - 422. Man (carrying grass bag and magic whistle of mourner). (Small size). 16(107)
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 10/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
