Zande prince's son
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Dent/tear top left/ silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.575
Previous Other Number:
46 2 (+54)
Accession Number:
1998.341.575.2
Description:
A portrait of a seated youth (identified as Reuben wiri Rikita, i.e.
Reuben son of Prince Rikita, who was Evans-Pritchard's clerk) seated in a camp chair with a grass fence in the background.
Reuben acted as a clerk during parts of Evans-Pritchard's fieldwork, and carried out surveys of ethnic and clan affiliations in Zandeland during his absence from the field.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Reuben wiri Rikita
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing
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)"] - 575. Son of Rikita (Ruben). +54
Notes on print/mount - "+54 46/.. EPA575"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS lower 8.89"
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)"] - 575. Son of Rikita (Ruben). +54
Notes on print/mount - "+54 46/.. EPA575"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS lower 8.89"
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP, 1971, page 2-11) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that "I instructed my clerk Reuben Rikita, to take, during my absences in England in 1929 and 1930, as broad a census as he could of the adult males in the old kingdoms of Gbudwe, Ezo and Tembura...[p]erhaps also, my clerk, being himself a noble [i.e.
Avongara], had a greater interest to record membership of his clan than of commoner clans." The pencil note on the print reverse for this image is partially obscured by old album mounting tape.
What is visible of the original film number is "46/" - the subsequent number may be "2" [Chris Morton 24/11/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 24/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
