Zande Prince's deputy
35 mm | Negative film Safety
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.586.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.586.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.586
Previous Other Number:
A.IV 9 (96)
Accession Number:
1998.341.586.1
Description:
A portrait of a seated deputy at the court of Prince Rikita holding his curved knife of office (mambere), with a dog under his bench seat (kitikpara) and men looking on in the background.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as the frontispiece to E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(OUP 1937) with the caption "A prince's deputy at the court of Rikita.
He holds a deputy's knife of office" [CM 17/8/2005]
Notes:
Film A.IV contains two photographs [1998.341.526 & .527] relating to a dance at Prince Rikita's also found in films A.II and A.III, photographs from which were published by Evans-Pritchard in 1928 in his article "The Dance"
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
, Vol.1, No.4 (Oct., 1928), drawing on his first expedition of 1927.
[Chris Morton 11/10/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Weapon , Clothing Headgear , Ornament
Keyword:
Knife , Animal Dog , Ornament Neck
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)"] - 586. Chief's deputy with knife of office. AIV/9 (96)
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)"] - 586. Chief's deputy with knife of office. AIV/9 (96)
Other Information:
Archive note - this negative is a strip of two modern museum negatives produced from the original print.
As with other previously accessioned museum-produced negatives, I have retained them within the full catalogue of the collection.
[Chris Morton 25/11/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 25/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
