Mandari Köbora group at cattle camp
54 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.293.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.293.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.11
Accession Number:
1998.97.293.2
Description:
A Mandari family group sitting within the staked circle of a cattle-camp fire, including two men, a woman and young children, with an older girl walking into the frame from the right.
Such fires were lit in the centre of the cattle kraal during the dry season to keep away pests that troubled the animals at night.
Just beyond the mother is a large open-weave basket containing other vessels and objects.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari Köbora
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Settlement , Social Life , Animal Husbandry , Basketry
Keyword:
Cattle Camp , Animal Cattle , Basket
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
Another image of this group, taken at the same time, is reproduced as Plate IVb (facing page 96) in Jean Buxton's Chiefs and Strangers (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1963) with the caption 'family in camp-fire circle.' [Chris Morton 10/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 10/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
