Moro rainmaker
103 x 75 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Sulphide staining right hand side [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.Misc.21
Previous Other Number:
VI 1; Moro handlist no. 274 276 299
Accession Number:
1998.353.22.2
Description:
A full length portrait of four men, three holding spears and bows and arrows dressed with loin cloths, and one wearing a white Arab-style tunic (gallabiya) and headscarf, identified as a rain-maker.
The film number inidicates that this image was taken during Evans-Pritchard's survey among the Moro - rain-makers and rainmaking being a central point of investigation.
The identification and description of medicine-men and rain-makers among different groups was an explicit direction given to Evans-Pritchard by C.
G.
Seligman in compiling the ethnographic survey of the southern Sudan.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Amadi District
Group:
Moro
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Religion , Weapon , Physical Anthropology
Keyword:
Bow , Arrow , Spear
Documentation:
Original catalogue lists in Manuscript Collections. Additional material in related documents files. [CM 27/9/2005]
Primary Documentation:
PRM Accession Records - Accession Book Entry [p.
98] 1966.27 [1 - 24] G[ift] PROFESSOR E.
E.
EVANS-PRITCHARD; INST.
OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 51 BANBURY RD.
OXFORD - 1966.27.19 - S.
SUDAN, DARFUNG.
VARIOUS TRIBES.
Box of negatives in envelopes, [1 - 242] & 1966.27.20 - Box of prints of these negatives [refers to object 1966.27.19] [1 - 242], in envelopes.
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Moro"] - 274/276/299. rain-maker
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "VI/1 rainmaker in gallabiya"
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Moro"] - 274/276/299. rain-maker
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "VI/1 rainmaker in gallabiya"
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [10/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
