Portrait of a circumcised Zande youth
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.97.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.97.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.97
Previous Other Number:
46 (+67) [frame 10]
Accession Number:
1998.341.97.1
Description:
The torso of a circumcised male (identified as Kamanga), with hands folded across stomach, showing the circumcised penis as well as cicatrisation on body.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Kamanga
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Ritual , Body Art
Keyword:
Body Art Skin
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)"] - 97. Circumcision. (Showing Circumcist Penise of Kamanga). 46(+67)
Note on negative m/s ink - "+67"
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)"] - 97. Circumcision. (Showing Circumcist Penise of Kamanga). 46(+67)
Note on negative m/s ink - "+67"
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP, 1971) p.113 E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'when Czekanowski carried out his researches in the years 1907-8 circumcision was in process of being introduced and had indeed become so much the fashion that adults were undergoing the operation...
It is remarkable that in so short a time the practice had come to be regarded as so much a Zande custom that aboro pito 'the uncircumcised', had become a scornful epithet used in reference to other peoples....
My informants said that it [circumcision] came to them from the Amadi...
Mgr Lagae says that the Azande of the south were initiated into the practice by the Mangbetu and the Abarambo, those of the north by the Amadi.' P.
Baxter & A.
Butt (London AIA, 1953 pages 73-4) discuss C.R.
Lagae's published accounts of circumcision among the Azande, noting that it takes place near a stream and away from settlement, the period of seclusion being about two months and the boys residing in specially made huts there.
The period is brought to a close with a feast and dancing, after which the boy takes a new name and social position.
[Chris Morton 16/10/2003] In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 151) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that Kamanga was his personal servant, who became initiated as a witch-doctor in order for E-P to gain access to data.
On page 185, he also states that Kamanga 'was a fervent believer in all kinds of magic, and especially in the powers of witch-doctors, a belief which months of mild effort on my part failed to break down.' [Chris Morton 13/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 13/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
