Mandari woman and girls

Mandari woman and girls
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.3.7


Accession Number:
1998.97.99
Description:
A full length portrait of a Mandari woman and adolescent girl, with three younger girls nearby. The girls are all wearing chain-link aprons favoured by some Mandari Köbora women, and the adolescent has a collar of beads around her neck. The woman wears a small decorated skin apron over another skin apron beneath, as well as numerous metal armrings that distend the arm. The dress of the Mandari Köbora differed quite markedly from the Mandari around Tali, who in general ornamented themselves more like their neighbours the Dinka.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Khor Moni
Group:
Mandari Köbora
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ornament , Clothing , Clothing Accessory
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Body , Ornament Neck
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
In Some Notes on the Mandari of Equatoria Province, A.E. Sudan, (typescript notebook of c.1951 in Tylor Library, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford), book I, page 38-39, Jean Buxton notes that 'Sere [i.e. Mandari Köbora] women display a wide range of finery...Brightly coloured leather aprons, coloured with red ochre, are ornamented with many rows of red and white beads. Aprons of metal links are also worn, and with both the above a small skin - more abbreviated than that of the Boronga - is worn, tied round the waist in front and hanging down behind, leaving the front apron showing. The edges of the skin are often beautifully ornamented with coloured beads...To match the bead 'corselets' of the men, girls wear large 'courting' collars of beads which are hung round the neck and come down in front well over the breasts. They are usually in orange or red. Other decorations in the way of necklaces or pendants are worn, of cowry shells, metal rings or beads. Girls also wear iron and brass rings round arms and legs, similar to those worn by the men.' [Chris Morton 21/1/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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