Zande courtier
140 x 80 mm | Print gelatin silver
Condition:
Silver sulphide staining/fading [EE 1989]
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
EP.A.707
Previous Other Number:
83 3 (+126)
Accession Number:
1998.341.707.2
Description:
A full length portrait of Ongosi, a courtier of Prince Basongoda's court (the grandfather of Prince Ngindö, who died in 1914 in a colonial prison in Wau), wearing his large barkcloth loincloth and brimmed straw hat (kisikindi).
Photographer:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photo:
1927 - 1930
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria Yambio
Group:
Zande
NamedPerson:
Ongosi
PRM Source:
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Acquired:
Donated 1966
Other Owners:
E. E. Evans-Pritchard Collection
Class:
Physical Anthropology , Clothing , Clothing Headgear
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)"] - 707. Ongosi (Large size). 83/3 (+126)
Notes on print/mount - "Ongosi 83/3 +126 EPA707"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS lower RH & LHS fading 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)"] - 707. Ongosi (Large size). 83/3 (+126)
Notes on print/mount - "Ongosi 83/3 +126 EPA707"
Notes on card mount m/s pencil - "SSS lower RH & LHS fading 8.89"
Other Information:
In Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (OUP 1937, page 184) E.
E.
Evans-Pritchard notes that 'Ongosi is a man who from boyhood has been closely associated with court life and has largely acquired the detached attitude of the nobles towards 'Zande' (commoner) practices.' Elsewhere (p.69, 399) he notes that Ongosi was one of his closest Zande friends.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/12/2003 [Southern Sudan Project]
