Zande boy playing boomerang game
61 x 40 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.444.1 - Negative film nitrate , (64 x 41 mm)
1998.341.444.1 - Negative film nitrate , (64 x 41 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.444
Previous Other Number:
32 3 (68)
Accession Number:
1998.341.444.2
Description:
A boy throwing a bent stick or boomerang known as ngu, used in a game.
Behind him is a large open sided meeting hut.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
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:
Toy & Game , Shelter
Keyword:
Toy , Building House Communal
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)"] - 444. Boy playing ngu game. (Small size). 32/3 (68)
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)"] - 444. Boy playing ngu game. (Small size). 32/3 (68)
Other Information:
In their Zande and English Dictionary (London, The Sheldon Press 1952 [1931], page 108) Canon & Mrs E.C.
Gore note 'Ngu, n., boomerang-shaped piece of wood used in a game, hence name given for boomerang.' In his article 'An Account of the Zande' Sudan Notes and Records (Vol.
IX, No.
1, 1926 p.27) P.M.
Larken notes that 'A sort of tip-cat is played with a curved piece of wood about a foot long.
One boy will dash it on the ground in such a way that it will bound again into the air.
His companion must snatch it in a running noose before it falls.
If he does so, he is the winner, and pretends to belabour the other, who makes a feint of running away.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 11/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
