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Nuer scarification marks

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head and shoulders profile portrait of an initiated man with heavy lines of scarification on the forehead. The operation (gar) is a severe one which causes much blood loss, across the forehead from ear to ear. Boys were normally initiated between the ages of 14-16, and a group initiated during a number of successive years belong to an age-set. After initiation a youth is prohibited from milking, able to marry, gains a spear and an ox from which he takes his ox-name, and was able to go on cattle raids against the Dinka.
Nuer scarification marks

Ingessana hide tanning

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man scraping the meat off a skin suspended by a rope from a pole next to a hut, with a tethered donkey beyond. The skin is first washed in a liquid prepared from the mudus tree, which grows locally. Much of the leather produced was sold to merchants and was traded in Omdurman where it was rated highly.
Ingessana hide tanning

Zande boy playing monochord instrument

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A boy (identified as Bisa) sitting on the ground playing an improvised single stringed instrument, consisting of a long stick bent over with a string attached, which is fastened to the ground.
Zande boy playing monochord instrument

Zande man playing kundi instrument

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A portrait of a seated man (identified as a subject of Badinda, probably a local governor) playing a thumb-piano instrument known as a kundi.
Zande man playing kundi instrument

Anuak hair dressing

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man (identified as Ojo) having his hair dressed by another who is crouching behind him. Spears are stuck in the ground beside them and an antelope skin is stretched out behind.
Anuak hair dressing

Portrait of a Zande boy

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A profile portrait of a boy (identified as 'tame Makana', a younger brother of Makana) wearing a metal bead neck ornament.
Portrait of a Zande boy

Zande boy with monkey

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: Portrait of a boy in a white shirt with a colobus monkey on his shoulder standing in the doorway of a brick-built building with a thatched roof (school?).
Zande boy with monkey

Zande magic whistle

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man (identified as Kamanga, one of Evans-Pritchard's servants) posed blowing a magic whistle (kura). Such whistles are mostly worn about the body and are used for a variety of purposes, such as to ward off witchcraft. They are made from plants and horns with magical associations, such as zerengbondo, a type of creeper.
Zande magic whistle

Zande youth gathering eleusine

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A male youth gathering eleusine coracana (millet) into a basket (type known as bangiribambamba, with eye-shaped open weave). This crop was once the most important base for porridge and beer, but has been displaced to some extent by manioc, a highly drought and pest resistant tuber, which is however somewhat less nutritious than flour produced from grain such as eleusine.
Zande youth gathering eleusine

Evans-Pritchard's Zande servant Mekana

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head and shoulders full-face portrait of Mekana (Zingbondo), Evans-Pritchard's personal servant and a son of the courtier and informant Ongosi.
Evans-Pritchard's Zande servant Mekana

Portrait of an Ingessana man

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head-and-shoulders rear view of a man wearing a bead necklace (given to him by Evans-Pritchard) with an overcoat hung as a backdrop. The man is identified as Dal, Evans-Pritchard's chief informant among the Ingessana.
Portrait of an Ingessana man

Fishing in Sobat River

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man described by Evans-Pritchard as an 'Anuak-Nuer' i.e. of mixed parentage, casting a fishing net into a river, probably the Sobat River near the wood station also photographed on the same film.
Fishing in Sobat River
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