Zande homestead in Government settlement
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.172.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.172.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.172
Previous Other Number:
3 (198) [frame 7]
Accession Number:
1998.341.172.2
Description:
A view of a homestead (identifed as belonging to Bage), including a raised granary (gbamu), a hut roof frame on the ground as well as other huts and a family group seated.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate III (facing page 26) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP 1937), with the caption "A Zande homestead in a government settlement (Bage's settlement in Gangura's province)"
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Settlement
Keyword:
Building House , Building Storage , Storage Crop
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)"] - 172. Homestead in Government Settlement. 3 (198)
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)"] - 172. Homestead in Government Settlement. 3 (198)
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 91) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that '[e]very Zande householder today has a granary with a movable roof, called gbamu, for storing his Eleusine...This type of granary is said to have been borrowed, though a very long time ago, like the culture of eleusine itself, from the Amiangba.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 20/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
