Govt. road in Zandeland
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
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1998.341.539.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.539.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.539
Previous Other Number:
47 2 (+95)
Accession Number:
1998.341.539.1
Description:
A view down a Government constructed road in a settlement.
Such roads were constructed using Zande labour in lieu of poll-tax, and facilitated resettlement and administration from the 1920s onwards.
Local chiefs were responsible in the main for their maintenance.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Settlement , Communication , Colonial
Keyword:
Road
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)"] - 539. Government road leading to settlements. 47/2 (+95)
Note on negative m/s ink - "+95"
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)"] - 539. Government road leading to settlements. 47/2 (+95)
Note on negative m/s ink - "+95"
Other Information:
In The Zande Scheme (Northwestern University Press, Illinois 1966, page 88) Conrad Reising states that 'The vigorous expansion of the road system stands in contrast to the weak commercial development of the district.
The reoads were necessary for the regular sleeping sickness inspections of the entire population, and by 1934 about 1,500 miles of all-weather earth and gravel roads had been constructed in Zande District.
Motor vehicles had penetrated to the district in the early 1920s and had become the sole means of transport, eliminating porterage as a means of earning money among the Azande.
Administration and medical services were motorised from the early 1920s on.
In 1934 over a dozen private motor vehicles, mostly trucks belonging to the merchants of the towns, were licensed in the district.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 17/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
