Zande women beating eleusine
   104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver 
     
   
 
 There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database: 
1998.341.519.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.519.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Condition: 
Silver sulphide staining [EE 1989] 
Date of Print: 
Unknown 
Previous PRM Number: 
EP.A.519 
Previous Other Number: 
47 2 (+103) 
 
Accession Number: 
1998.341.519.2 
Description: 
A group of women at a feast wearing grass waist coverings, working around a large amount of eleusine, beating it with sticks in unison. 
This crop was once the most important base for porridge and beer, but has been displaced to some extent by manioc, a highly drought and pest resistent tuber, which is however somewhat less nutrious than flour produced from grain such as eleusine. 
Photographer: 
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard 
Date of Photo: 
1927 - 1930 
Region: 
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria  Yambio 
Group: 
Zande 
PRM Source: 
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard 
Acquired: 
Donated 1966 
Other Owners: 
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection 
Class: 
Food and Drink , Domestic Life , Social Life 
Keyword: 
Crop  Millet , Foodstuff 
Activity: 
Food Preparing 
Event: 
Feast 
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)"] - 519. Women beating eleusine at feast. 47/2 (+103)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "Fading? SSS RHS 8.89"
 
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)"] - 519. Women beating eleusine at feast. 47/2 (+103)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "Fading? SSS RHS 8.89"
Recorder: 
Christopher Morton 17/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project] 
  
