Ritual purifying of new Zande baby
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining overall [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.566
Previous Other Number:
92 3 (22) [frame 6]
Accession Number:
1998.341.566.2
Description:
Women holding a new baby in the smoke of a fire lit at the entrance to the mother's hut.
Purification in the smoke is part of a ceremony of bringing out the new baby from the confinement of the first few days.
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:
Ritual , Shelter , Fire
Keyword:
Vessel , Building House
Activity:
Ritual Activity
Event:
Ceremony Birth
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)"] - 566. Woman holding child over fire at birth ceremony. 3(22)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS overall 8.89"
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)"] - 566. Woman holding child over fire at birth ceremony. 3(22)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS overall 8.89"
Other Information:
In Man and Woman among the Azande (Faber & Faber 1974, page 22) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard quotes an informant who states that 'when a woman has borne a child she stays indoors for two or maybe three days till the afterbirth has fallen.
Then early in the morning they prepare to bring the child out.
They go and collect aumugbe, sakperenge and ngbege, and they set light to these woods in the doorway of the hut in which the child is...when they bring the child out of the hut they cook porridge and manioc leaves.' [Chris Morton 21/11/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
