IDNO

P.74502.

Description

A vignette upper body profile portrait of a Zande male wearing a metal neck ornament, his hair braided into strands. [from PRM record, JD 31/3/2010]

Physical Condition: Albumen print vignetted. Mount card originally had four prints and now has been cut into four individual prints, P.74501. - P.74504. [JD 31/3/2010]

Place

NE Africa; Sudan; Southern Sudan; ?Bahr el Jebel Odio

Cultural Affliation

Zande

Named Person

Photographer

Buchta, Richard

Collector / Expedition

Date

July - August 1879

Collection Name

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in envelope now numbered C450/ which was found in Bay C Drawer 39.

Cultural Group: ‘Zande’ is a Nilo-Saharan and Eastern Sudanic cultural group, primarily residing in Sudan. The Group and Place fields have been amended accordingly. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 31/3/2010]

Related Image: The same image is held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, reference 1998.203.1.52.1, with the following information:
Description: A vignette upper body profile portrait of a Zande male wearing a metal neck ornament, his hair braided into strands. Buchta made an excursion to the groups west of the Nile in 1879 setting out from Juba on 7th July and returning there on 26th August.
Photographer: Richard Buchta
Date of Photo: 1879 July - August
Region: [Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Odio?
Group: Zande
Contemporary Publication - Richard Buchta, Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften . Dargestellt in 160
Notes: In H. B. Thomas' article 'Richard Buchta and Early Photography in Uganda' Uganda Journal Vol. 25, no. 1, 1960, p. 116, he notes that 'Buchta seems to have remained at Lado until on 7 July he set off for Makaraka whence he returned on 26 August. The fruits of this journey appear in a number of photographs in his album.' [CM 16/6/2005]
[Source: http://southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk/details/1998.203.1.52.1/, JD 31/3/2010]

Photographer: Richard Buchta (1845-1894). The Buchta prints are possibly copies of those published in Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften . Dargestellt in 160 Photographien, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Richard Buchta. (Berlin 1881. Verlag Von J. F. Stiehm).
“Buchta was an Austrian professional photographer, who had probably been working in Cairo for several years before meeting the Italian soldier-administrator Romolo Gessi there in April 1877. Buchta is known to have been in Khartoum in the middle of 1878, perhaps as a freelance photographer. In August he set out from Khartoum on the S.S. Safia bound for Lado. He afterwards completed a journey as far south as Bunyoro in northern Uganda, returning to Lado in March 1879. From there he journeyed west to visit Zande (Makaraka) and other communities. In September 1879 he went from Lado to Shambe and then westwards, meeting the missionaries Wilson and Felkin as well as Gessi at Dem Suleiman before December 4. In February 1880 Buchta met Junker at Meshra el Rek, on his way to Khartoum, and he showed him prints he had made, especially from his recent travels in Makaraka. Buchta was back in Europe probably by the end of 1880, publishing his photographic collection the following year.” [Source: http://southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk/biography/buchta/, JD 31/3/2010]