Zande homestead with women
188 x 140 mm | Print albumen paper
MountDimension:
240 x 310 mm
Condition:
Poor, overall fading, dirt ingrained. Fragile mount corners. [E. E. 9/95]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
B.3.1.50
Previous Other Number:
86 160
Accession Number:
1998.203.1.50
Description:
A view of a Zande homestead with a posed group of five women in the foreground showing a variety of Zande domestic objects and activities.
These include a trough mortar and pestle, stirring a pot, sorting a pile of eleusine, ?winnowing grain, and grinding flour.
Behind the group is a man dressed in a tunic and large pantaloons, holding a very large spear, probably used for hunting elephants or other large animals.
Buchta made an excursion to the groups west of the Nile in 1879 setting out from Juba on 7th July and returning there on 26th August.
Photographer:
Richard Buchta
Date of Photo:
1879 July - August
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Odio?
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Richard Buchta,
Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften
.
Dargestellt in 160 Photographien, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Richard Buchta.
(Berlin 1881.
Verlag Von J.
F.
Stiehm)
Notes:
In H.
B.
Thomas' article 'Richard Buchta and Early Photography in Uganda'
Uganda Journal
Vol.
25, no.
1, 1960, p.
116, he notes that 'Buchta seems to have remained at Lado until on 7 July he set off for Makaraka whence he returned on 26 August.
The fruits of this journey appear in a number of photographs in his album.' [CM 16/6/2005]
PRM Source:
Unknown
Acquired:
Unknown
Other Owners:
Unknown
Class:
Settlement , Shelter , Domestic Life , Pottery
Keyword:
Vessel Pottery , Building House , Crop
Activity:
Winnowing , Grinding , Food Preparing
Primary Documentation:
Notes on mount ms pencil - "86 Niam-Niam village"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "160"
Notes on mount reverse ms pencil - "160"
Recorder:
Elizabeth Edwards 6/9/95 Christopher Morton 14/6/2005 [Sudan Project]
