Zande Prince Bavongara

104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver

Condition:

Residual chemical staining spots [EE 1989]

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.A.466

Previous Other Number:

52 3 (+22)

Accession Number:

1998.341.466

Description:

Portrait of Prince Bavongara (a son of King Gbudwe who died in 1905), holding a pipe and seated in a cane chair in his home compound, with his household tuka or spirit-shrine behind him.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1927 - 1930

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio

Group:

Zande

NamedPerson:

Bavongara wiri Gbudwe

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate Va (facing page 58) in E. E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937) with the caption "A nobleman, Bavongara. Son of Gbudwe. Behind him is his ghost-shrine" [CM 11/8/2005]

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Narcotic , Furnishings , Religion

Keyword:

Pipe , Shrine

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)"] - 466. Chief (Bavungara) and spirit-shrine

Notes on print/mount - "52/3 +22 466"

Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "rcs spots 6/87"

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 12/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]