?Moro bellows
108 x 83 mm | Print
Date of Print:
1980s PRM paper print
Previous PRM Number:
EP.Misc.52
Previous Other Number:
Moro handlist no.324
Accession Number:
1998.353.53
Description:
A close-up of a bellows within a smith's forge shelter.
The double bellows consist of two pottery chambers with leather hoods, that pump air down their necks into a small furnace attached.
The image seems to have been taken during Evans-Pritchard's Moro survey of 1927.
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:
Metalwork
Keyword:
Forge
Activity:
Metalworking
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"] - 324. Bellows
Manual Catalogues [typewritten, entitled "Moro"] - 324. Bellows
Other Information:
When catalogued in 1991 by Alison Petch no negative for this image was found.
This museum reference print is thereby the only object relating to this image and so it has been accessioned.
[Chris Morton 14/9/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [14/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
