Portrait of a Zande man
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.341.283.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
1998.341.283.1 - Negative film nitrate , (104 x 78 mm)
Condition:
Very slight fading [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.283
Previous Other Number:
92 4 (59) [frame 12]
Accession Number:
1998.341.283.2
Description:
A man (unidentified) with folded arms.
He has circular cicatrices on both cheeks, as well as a design on his torso, just visible.
Such keloid designs were often painted over using a mixture of mbiango juice and charcoal, which is a persistent dye.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced (face only) as one of the images in the composite Plate LVI (facing page 496) in C.G.
& B.
Seligman's
Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan
(London, Routledge 1932), with the caption "Zande types".
[CM 11/8/2005]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Body Art
Keyword:
Body Art Skin
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)"] - 283. Man. 4 (59)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "v. slight fading 5/88 EE"
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)"] - 283. Man. 4 (59)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "v. slight fading 5/88 EE"
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In The Azande (London AIA, 1953 page 18) P.
Baxter & A.
Butt state that 'Azande have no specific tribal markings and they do not tattoo although they make elaborate keloid patterns all over the face and trunk.
This practice is common all over Zandeland, and particularly in the Belgian Congo.
Except under Arab influence, the face is not scarred.
Designs are painted with a pointed stick on top of the scarification pattern, in a mixture of mbiango juice and charcoal, which is a persistent dye...' [CM 11/8/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 30/10/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
