Zande Prince Bavongara

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]
 
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