Zande pot (museum photo)
88 x 63 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.495
Accession Number:
1998.341.495
Description:
A Pitt Rivers Museum photograph of a decorated Mbegumba pot, one wide brimmed, donated by E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard probably in the early 1930s.
The Mbegumba are a section of the Bivri, a sub-group of the Belanda who are a neighbouring people to the Azande.
Photographer:
PRM photographer
Date of Photo:
1930s
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria ?Yambio
Group:
Belanda
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Museum , Pottery , Vessel
Keyword:
Vessel
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)"] - 495. Pot (of Mbegumba make) (Museum photo).
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)"] - 495. Pot (of Mbegumba make) (Museum photo).
Other Information:
In C.G.
& B.
Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932, page 480-1) they note that the Mbegumba are 'that section of the Belanda tribe who are not Shilluk-speaking.' Noting that the women make pots, they state that 'Their technique differs from any other so far described in the Sudan in that before firing the pots are corated with a slip of the special kind of black mud called liki in Zande; the finished pot has a high polish, presumably obtained by burnishing before firing.' This description matches the qualities of the pot in the image fairly accurately. Ethnologue states that Belanda Viri (Mbegumba) is spoken on the Iba river near Yambio, which could well be the immediate context for Evans-Pritchard's collection of this object.
[Chris Morton 13/11/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 13/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
