Zande man wearing feathered hat
81 x 62 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.638
Previous Other Number:
52 (+25)
Accession Number:
1998.341.638.3
Description:
A portrait of a seated man (unidentified) wearing a feathered straw hat and holding a fly-whisk.
The earliest recorded Zande straw hats were brimless with plumes and with a rim to which plaits of hari were fixed.
The addition of a straw brim seems to have occured around the turn of the 20th century.
In his book on tales of the Zande 'trickster' Evans-Pritchard reproduces the image of this man as an illustration of what the central character 'Ture' might look like.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
"Ture"
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate IIIb (facing page 96) in E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard's
The Zande Trickster
(Oxford 1967), with the caption "This could be Ture"
Notes:
Although it is unclear what Evans-Pritchard means in his caption that 'this could be Ture', it is of course most likely that he is using this man's anonymity to represent a mythological character, which he may have found problematic had he recorded his name.
[Chris Morton 28/11/2003]
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Shelter , Clothing Headgear , Barkcloth
Keyword:
Fly Whisk
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 TR IBE.
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)"] - 638. Man wearing hat. +25
Notes on print/mount - "IIIb 'man wearing hat' [signed by E-P] [+ other numerous printer's marks and measurements]" [Chris Morton 28/11/2003]
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)"] - 638. Man wearing hat. +25
Notes on print/mount - "IIIb 'man wearing hat' [signed by E-P] [+ other numerous printer's marks and measurements]" [Chris Morton 28/11/2003]
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - In The Azande (OUP, 1971, page 71) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that whilst the earliest noted Mbomu hats were brimless straw hats with plumes called kutuku, "the hat which is today fashionable, and has been for some years, is of much the same shape but with two new features: black lateral patterns, often wavy lines, and a broad brim, the first being copied from the Mangbetu and the second from the earliest Europeans." Ethnographic context - In Georg Schweinfurth's The Heart of Africa (London 1873, vol ii page 278) there is a printed etching of a man with a Zande headdress, with the caption 'remarkable headdress of the Niam-Niam'.
He writes that 'It is only the men who wear any covering at all upon the head: they use a cylindrical hat without any brim, square at the top and always ornamented with a waving plume of feathers: the hat is fastened on by large hair-pins, either of iron, copper or ivory..' [Chris Morton 28/11/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 28/11/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
