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:
1998.341.117.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.117.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.117
Previous Other Number:
16 3 (F.1) [frame 12]
Accession Number:
1998.341.117.2
Description:
A portrait of a boy (identified as wiri Tupoi, i.e.
a son of Tupoi).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
wiri Tupoi
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)"] - 117. Boy (wili Tupoi) 16/3 (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)"] - 117. Boy (wili Tupoi) 16/3 (11)
Other Information:
Note that the film number is listed in the manual catalogue as 16/3 (11), although the negative and print are both labelled "F.1", and this fits the format of the other 16/3 series.
In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 114) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'One of those whom I knew well was my friend Tupoi of the Amozungu clan, a prominent figure at the court of Gangura...
believed by every one to be a witch of long standing and of great prestige in the witch council.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
