Portrait of a Zande boy
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.107.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.107.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.107
Previous Other Number:
16 1 (G.11) [frame 2]
Accession Number:
1998.341.107.2
Description:
A portrait of a boy (identified as Biso) with a notch in the front teeth.
This filing of the teeth was done for display purposes and was known as masua.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Biso
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology
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)"] - 107. Boy (Biso). 16/1 (G.11.)
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)"] - 107. Boy (Biso). 16/1 (G.11.)
Other Information:
In C.G.
& B.
Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932, page 518) they note that '[t]he teeth are not removed but a v-shaped notch is cut between the centre pair of upper incisors.' This information is based on Larken, "An Account of the Azande", Sudan Notes & Records, 1926.
In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 114) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'I was told that first the incisors were sharpened (zagbali or lindi ango), then this gave way to mande, the boring of a hole pointed towards the gums between the central upper incisors, still occasionally seen during my residence in Zandeland.
This in turn gave way to masua, a notch like an inverted V cut between the same teeth, as commonly seen at that time.
These mutiliations were done ni ngbanya 'for ornamentation'.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 13/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
