Portrait of a Zande youth

104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

EP.A.452

Previous Other Number:

83 B (+154) [frame 12]

Accession Number:

1998.341.452.2

Description:

A portrait of a youth (identified as possibly the chief's son, Zuzu) seated in a cane chair outside a large open sided shelter, wearing a large barkcloth.

Photographer:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photo:

1927 - 1930

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio

Group:

Zande

NamedPerson:

Zuzu?

PRM Source:

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Acquired:

Donated 1966

Other Owners:

E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection

Class:

Physical Anthropology , Furnishings

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)"] - 452. Male type (?chief's son, Zuzu). 83/B (+154)

Other Information:

In The Azande (OUP 1971, page 99) E. E. Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Over forty years ago, in my time, some of the nobles were using cane chairs modelled on the European deck-chair.'

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 11/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]