- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Lid for box, made from bark with a central strip of lighter bark decorated with two strips of plaited plant fibre. [FB 13/6/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Zande
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- 1927 - 1930
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 31/12/1930 Found unentered: 13/06/2017
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Fibre Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Bent, Process Perforated, Process Stitched, Process Pegged, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Height: max 78 mm, Width: max 92 mm, Length: max 198 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1930.86.66.2
- Research and responses
RDF 1930.86 contains a letter from Evans-Pritchard to Mr. Malcolm dated 12 December 1930, offering him some 81 Zande and Nuer objects. As Malcolm was curator of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, it seems unlikely that these objects were ever sent to the Pitt Rivers Museum and this letter is only useful as background for Evans-Pritchard's attritudes to the intended future use of his material, and as evidence for the temporary storage of these objects in Professor Seligman's office in the London School of Economics at the time. The file also contains an undated list of 48 objects, which does not seem to match accessioned material and could be the list of rejected items that Balfour mentions in another letter on file, dated 31 December 1930.
This object resembles a European binoculars case; it is not clear if this is accidental or not. Larken gives these a passing mention: "Oval boxes, the sides of bent bark and the tops and bottoms of smooth wood, sewn with bark at the points of juncture … are sometimes made" (P.M. Larken, 1927, "Impressions of the Azande", Sudan Notes and Records X, p. 134) [RTS 25/8/2005].
1930.86.66.2
Lid for box, made from bark with a central strip of lighter bark decorated with two strips of plaited plant fibre. [FB 13/6/2017]
1930.86.66.2
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