Zande garden
140 x 80 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.677
Previous Other Number:
72 5 (V.4)
Accession Number:
1998.341.677
Description:
A section of cultivated garden with a termite (akedo) mound and trees, belonging to a man called Gami, who lived in Prince Rikita's province.
One of the plants growing is groundnut (boko).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate XXII (facing page 354) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP 1937), with the caption "A mound of akedo termites at the edge of a homestead in Rikita's province" [CM 17/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Agriculture and Horticulture
Keyword:
Plant , [Insect]
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)"] - 677. Homestead gardens (Large size). 72/5 (V-4)
Notes on print/mount - "Part of Gami's garden. Akiedo. Boko. Zanwa V-4 72/5 EPA 677"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS RHS Upper "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)"] - 677. Homestead gardens (Large size). 72/5 (V-4)
Notes on print/mount - "Part of Gami's garden. Akiedo. Boko. Zanwa V-4 72/5 EPA 677"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS RHS Upper "8.89"
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - Akiedo may well be Akedo, or termites.
Zanwa I have been unable to translate.
[Chris Morton 2/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 2/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
