Zande pot making
140 x 80 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.701
Accession Number:
1998.341.701
Description:
A potter (probably Perenge) crouching down making a clay pot on the ground, with a wooden stake walled hut (gbute) behind him.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Perenge
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Pottery , Vessel
Keyword:
Vessel
Activity:
Manufacturing
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)"] - 701. Pot making (Large size)
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)"] - 701. Pot making (Large size)
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP, 1971) page 95, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that "Azande men are expert potters, or so it seemed to me, for I attempted, without much success, to master the art under their guidance.
This is said to be an art of the Ambomu, who made certain types of pottery...
used for carrying water, ablutions, brewing beer, boiling oil, roasting and boiling met, etc.
On the whole it was asserted that small-mouthed pots were Mbomu and that designs with larger mouths came from the south, especially from the Mangbetu." Although there is no film number recorded for this image, it is almost certainly part of the 72/2 (II) series, probably negative no.2 or 3.
[Chris Morton 4/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
