Zande circumcision hut
104 x 78 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.42.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.42.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 78 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.42
Previous Other Number:
31 2 [frame 7]
Accession Number:
1998.341.42.1
Description:
A hut (type known as basa) constructed in the bush to shelter boys during circumcision initiation and for the meetings of secret societies.
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:
Shelter , Ritual
Keyword:
Building House Men's
Event:
Ceremony Circumcision
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)"] - 42. Hut (to show type) 31/2
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)"] - 42. Hut (to show type) 31/2
Other Information:
In The Azande (OUP, 1971, page 90) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that "[t]he hut called basa, crudely constructed, without walls, and tunnel-shaped and barn-like in appearance, is put up in the bush to shelter boys during initiation by circumcision and for meetings of secret societies (closed associations)." This is a very similar image to [1998.341.41] taken from the same position, but with the hut more centrally framed.
According to the negative numbers, this image was in fact taken immediately previous to [.41], which was probably framed to include the structure on a raised platform some distance away to the left.
[Chris Morton 8/10/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
