Zande carved bowl (museum photo)
88 x 63 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.481
Accession Number:
1998.341.481
Description:
A Pitt Rivers Museum photograph of a carved bowl, donated to the museum by E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard, probably in the early 1930s.
Many of the carved objects donated were probably made by Kisanga, one of Evans-Pritchard's more significant informants, and a renowned wood carver in the region.
Photographer:
PRM photographer
Date of Photo:
?1930s
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria
Group:
Zande
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Museum , Carving , Vessel
Keyword:
Vessel
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)"] - 481. Wooden bowl. (Museum photo).
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)"] - 481. Wooden bowl. (Museum photo).
Other Information:
In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP, 1937) page 66 E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'one of my chief informants, Kisanga, was a skilled woodcarver, one of the finest carvers in the whole kingdom of Gbudwe.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 13/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
