Zande youth with fig-tree bark

Zande youth with fig-tree bark
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.44
Previous Other Number:
47 2 (94) [frame 12]


Accession Number:
1998.341.44.2
Description:
A youth holding a strip of fig-tree (Ficus platyphylla) bark, used to make barkcloth clothing (roko, bagadi), working the strip with a small knife.
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:
Plant Use , Raw Material , Clothing
Keyword:
Plant , Knife
Activity:
Fibre Preparing
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)"] - 44. Youth with strip of fig-tree bark. (Showing process in bark-cloth making). 47/2 (94)

Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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