Portrait of a Zande chief
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.607
Previous Other Number:
46 (+134)
Accession Number:
1998.341.607.2
Description:
A portrait of a chief (Bazango, one of Prince Gangura's sons) wearing a very long barkcloth tied with a belt, playing a thumb-piano instrument known as a kundi.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Bazango wiri Gangura
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Barkcloth , Music
Keyword:
Musical Instrument
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)"] - 607. Chief (Bazango wili Gangura). +134
Notes on print/mount - "46 +134 EPA 607"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SS 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)"] - 607. Chief (Bazango wili Gangura). +134
Notes on print/mount - "46 +134 EPA 607"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SS overall 8.89"
Other Information:
Gangura was a son of Gbudwe (died 1905) ruler of the Zande kingdom between the Lingasi and Hu rivers in south-western Sudan.
Gangura ruled a province in the extreme south of Gbudwe's old kingdom, which was where E-P based himself during fieldwork (see Sketch 3, page 124 of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's The Azande (OUP, 1971)) [Chris Morton 7/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 26/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
