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:
1998.341.779.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.779.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.779
Previous Other Number:
I 7
Accession Number:
1998.341.779.2
Description:
An upper body portrait of a man described as a Nyamusa youth, wearing a small woven brimless hat with a feather at the top.
Around his neck is strung what looks like a hut-tax disk (no.4739).
He also had keloid designs on his chest as well as an arm ornament.
The Nyamusa are a relatively small group belonging to the Bongo-Mittu language group of Amadi district.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Amadi
Group:
Nyamusa
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing Headgear , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Arm
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)
Notes on print/mount - "ñamusa youth I/7"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS LHS & lower edge 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)
Notes on print/mount - "ñamusa youth I/7"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS LHS & lower edge 8.89"
Other Information:
In his essay "The Non-Dinka peoples of the Amadi and Rumbek Districts" (Sudan Notes and Records XX, 1937 pp.156-159) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Among the Morokodo, Nyamusa, Biti and Wira peoples of Amadi district I spent only a few hours on the various occasions when I passed through their country by car [in 1927].'[Chris Morton 10/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 10/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
