Zande road with medicine hut
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.126
Previous Other Number:
3 (205) [frame 4]
Accession Number:
1998.341.126.2
Description:
A view down a Government constructed road in a settlement, with a 'medicine-hut' at the verge.
There are also fig-trees (Ficus platyphylla) growing along the road side, from which barkcloth is made (roko).
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:
Religion , Ritual , Communication , Plant Use
Keyword:
Building Religious , Plant , 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)"] - 126. Medicine Hut at side of Government Road in Settlement. (Shows bark-cloth fig-trees). 3 (205)
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)"] - 126. Medicine Hut at side of Government Road in Settlement. (Shows bark-cloth fig-trees). 3 (205)
Other Information:
Another 'medicine-hut' is reproduced in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, facing page 432), with the caption "Shelter for theft-medicine.
The medicine can be seen hanging beneath the roof of the shelter." (See [1998.341.93] for image).
On page 433 he also notes that 'Medicine huts, like the one shown on Plate XXVII, are often to be seen in homesteads and at the sides of paths where they traverse cultivations.' On page 461-2 he also notes that since medicines are destroyed by cold and damp, 'important medicines made in the open are generally protected from rain by a small grass shelter, or by an inverted pot, or are hidden in the hole of a tree.' See also [1998.341.123 - 4] [Chris Morton 14/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
