Evans-Pritchard's Zande servant Kamanga
104 x 78 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.503
Previous Other Number:
52 4 (+11)
Accession Number:
1998.341.503.2
Description:
An upper body full face portrait of Kamanga, Evans-Pritchard's personal servant during his fieldwork in Zandeland, with cictrisation on the cheek.
Kamanga was raised in and around a Prince's court, and as one of Evans-Pritchard's chief informants became a novice binza or witchdoctor, imparting much ethnographic information concerning the corporation and its knowledge of medicines.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Kamanga
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Body Art , Clothing
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)"] - 503. Kamanga +11
Notes on print/mount - "52/4 +11 EPA 503"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "mark - middle SSS-RHS + LHS"
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)"] - 503. Kamanga +11
Notes on print/mount - "52/4 +11 EPA 503"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "mark - middle SSS-RHS + LHS"
Other Information:
In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 151) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that Kamanga was his personal servant, who became initiated as a binza (witch-doctor) in order for E-P to gain access to data.
On page 185, he also states that Kamanga 'was a fervent believer in all kinds of magic, and especially in the powers of witch-doctors, a belief which months of mild effort on my part failed to break down.'
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
