Portrait of a Zande man

Portrait of a Zande man
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.58.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.58
Previous Other Number:
16 2 (E.11) [frame 5]


Accession Number:
1998.341.58.2
Description:
A man (identified as Kpatamangu) wearing a feathered brimless straw hat (kutuku) squeezing oil out of termites into a recepticle in a hole in the ground, by pushing down with a wooden tool onto a bed of cane lengths, the termites presumably held in a sandwich of leaves beneath.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Kpatamangu
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Clothing Headgear , Food and Drink , Tool
Keyword:
Headdress
Activity:
Food Preparing
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)"] - 58. Man (Kpatamangu) squashing oil out of termites. 16/2 (E.11.)

Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 70) E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that 'In sketches by early travellers Azande men are shown wearing straw hats. Schweinfurth describes them as 'a cylindrical hat without any brim, square at the top and always ornamented with a waving plume of feathers...'. The same kind of cylindrical, brimless, straw hat was still worn in 1906 ... [t]his is the old Mbomu hat, called kutuku, and some of the older men still keep to a version of it.' [See also 1998.341.61 & 99] [Chris Morton 13/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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