Zande boy in cane chair
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.98
Previous Other Number:
83 B (+160) [frame 11]
Accession Number:
1998.341.98.2
Description:
Portrait of a boy (identified as wiri Badobo, i.e.
son of Badobo) seated in a cane chair, arms across his lap, in Evans-Pritchard's courtyard.
Badobo was the leadering member of the corporation of witch-doctors in Evans-Pritchard's district.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
wiri Badobo
Notes:
This may be a son of Badobo the witch-doctor and teacher of Kamanga.
[CM 29/11/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Furnishings , Shelter
Keyword:
Building House Communal
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)"] - 98. Wili Badobo. 23/13 (+160)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83/B +160"
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)"] - 98. Wili Badobo. 23/13 (+160)
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "83/B +160"
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 99) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Over forty years ago, in my time, some of the nobles were using cane chairs modelled on the European deck-chair.' [Chris Morton 13/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 13/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
