Evans-Pritchard's hut with servant Mekana
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.399
Previous Other Number:
3 (204) [frame 10]
Accession Number:
1998.341.399.2
Description:
A servant (identified as Mekana) wearing an arabic-style white tunic and waistcoat, outside Evans-Pritchard's hut.
The large square hut is of a type known as gbiliki, and has a ridge along the roof, clay walls, as well as a stone-lined path leading to the door, with a curious cross-shape at the centre.
Mekana was, along with Kamanga, one of Evans-Pritchard's personal servants during his fieldwork among the Azande.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Mekana wiri Ongosi
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Clothing , Colonial
Keyword:
Building House , Uniform
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)"] - 399. Makana in Service dress outside my hut. 3(202)
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)"] - 399. Makana in Service dress outside my hut. 3(202)
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 6/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
