Zande spear rest
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.43
Previous Other Number:
47 (77) [frame 7]
Accession Number:
1998.341.43.2
Description:
A spear-rest consisting of two uprights and a branch cross-piece, standing just outside the open, low-eaved thatched shelter of Chief Kanimara's courthouse or ngbanga.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Social Life , [Weapon]
Keyword:
Building House Communal , [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)"] - 43. Chief's (Kanimara) Court (ngbanga) (showing spear rest). 47 (77).
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)"] - 43. Chief's (Kanimara) Court (ngbanga) (showing spear rest). 47 (77).
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP, 1971) page 90, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that "a hut without walls or with very low walls, the roof resting on a circle of stakes and reaching almost to the ground, called yepu or bazambe or bayepu, is said to be old Mbomu.
It is particularly built by princes for shelter when they sit in court.
The basungo is much the same type of hut but seems to be mainly distinguished by its floor of clay." In their Zande and English Dictionary (London, The Sheldon Press 1952 [1931], page 103) Canon & Mrs E.C.
Gore note 'Ngbanga, n., court of justice, the public part of a chief's village, a lawsuit, a legal case.' This is a very similar image to [1998.341.89] although slightly closer and two frames earlier.
[Chris Morton 10/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
