Zande master of feast
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.460.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.460.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.460
Previous Other Number:
46 3 (+71) [frame 10]
Accession Number:
1998.341.460.2
Description:
A group of men at a feast, in the centre the master of the feast (identified as Manguru) holding a ceremonial staff, consisting of a short stick with a globular end possibly of barkcloth.
He also wears the whistle of a song-leader around his neck, used to call people to a dance, as well as a plaited plant-fibre belt.
The ceremonial staff may well be used to beat the wooden gong (gugu) used at such a feast (pumbó).
To his left is a man identified as Nzoropoi, and to his right Panyamu (holding a mambere).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Manguru, Nzoropoi, Panyamu
Notes:
Photographs from the film numbered "46 3" are published in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's article "Oracle Magic of the Azande"
Sudan Notes and Records
, Vol.XI, 1928, based upon his first expedition of 1927.
[CM 10/10/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Music , Barkcloth , Dance , Social Life , Clothing Accessory
Keyword:
Musical Instrument Wind , Knife
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)"] - 460. Master of feast holding ceremonial staff. (Nzoropoi, Manguru, Panyamu). 46/3
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)"] - 460. Master of feast holding ceremonial staff. (Nzoropoi, Manguru, Panyamu). 46/3
Other Information:
It is possible that the plaited girdle belt is the one described in Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 459) as 'the girdle which indicates that a person has taken on himself the responsibility of maintaining the conditions essential to the success of vengeance-magic"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 12/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
