Portrait of a Mandari youth

Portrait of a Mandari youth
80 x 80 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.136.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.4.9


Accession Number:
1998.97.136.2
Description:
An upper body full face portrait of a Mandari youth, wearing a number of strings of rem waist beads. The colour configuration of these beads exhibited relative age-grade status. Age-grades among the western Mandari seem to have been a relatively recent, loosely defined or organized borrowing by youths from their Atuot neighbours, there being no memory of age-grades or even initiation in the past.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Mandari ?Dari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Bead , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Body
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 27/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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