Mabaan man
100 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.D.218
Previous Other Number:
Q 7
Accession Number:
1998.344.218.2
Description:
An upper body full face portrait of a seated man wearing iron arm rings, a neck orMabaan (Burun)nament and with white ochre on his forehead.
This man also features as one of three men holding up bows and arrows in another image.
Evans-Pritchard had intended a tour of the Southern Burun (who Evans-Pritchard calls Meban) of the Yabus river after visiting Jebel Ulu, whose people were related.
However, sickness meant that he had to restrict interviews to a group of three Mabaan men from Koda who had been summoned to Ulu by the local ruler Sheikh Idris.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1926 December
Region:
Blue Nile Jebel Ulu
Group:
Mabaan
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate IVb (facing page 18) of E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's 'Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung',
Sudan Notes and Records
Vol.XV, Part i, 1932, with the caption 'Meban Type (Koda)'.
[Chris Morton 24/2/2004]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament , Body Art
Keyword:
Body Art Paint , Ornament Neck , Ornament Arm
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p.
98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S.
SUDAN, DARFUNG.
VARIOUS TRIBES.
Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 218. Man - front view. (Burun). Q.7
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Q7"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Ingassana"] - 218. Man - front view. (Burun). Q.7
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "Q7"
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In 'Ethnological Observations in Dar Fung', Sudan Notes and Records Vol.XV, Part i, 1932 p.
17, E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'It had been my ambition to to extend my tour to include the Southern Burun within its circuit since they are ethnologically-speaking an almost unknown people.
Sickness compelled me to abandon the project, however, and I had to be content with a short chat with a few Meban from Koda who Sheikh Idris had summoned to Ulu during my stay there.' [Chris Morton 24/2/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 24/2/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
