Portrait of a Zande chief
140 x 80 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Residual chemical staining? silver sulphide staining [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.658
Previous Other Number:
83 3 (+127)
Accession Number:
1998.341.658.2
Description:
A three-quarter length standing portrait of a chief (identified as Bazugba, wiri Bafuka, i.e.
Chief Bazungba son of Prince Bafuka) in the courtyard with a grass fence behind.
Bazugba was identifed by benge oracle as the causer of his father Prince Bafuka's death by witchcraft, for which he was banished for some time, although he later became a popular ruler who was nonetheless deposed by the colonial administration.
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Bazugba wiri Bafuka
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology
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)"] - 658. Chief (Bazugba, wili Bafuka) (Large size). 83/3 (+127)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS? RHS middle/ upper SSS overall 8.89"
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)"] - 658. Chief (Bazugba, wili Bafuka) (Large size). 83/3 (+127)
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "RCS? RHS middle/ upper SSS overall 8.89"
Other Information:
In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, pages 310-11 and 394-5) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard discusses the story of chief Bazugba and the death of Prince Bafuka in some detail, as recounted by his informant Kuagbiaro.
In particular he notes the use of a youth who took the benge poison to establish the guilt of Bazugba in the case.
He notes that Bazugba was 'a man well known to me...
[who] still denies his guilt and attributes both accusations and misfortunes to the malice of his noble kinsmen.' [Chris Morton 1/12/2003]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 1/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
