Mandari doctor of powers
115 x 110 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.5.8
Accession Number:
1998.97.157
Description:
An upper body portrait of a man seated on a deckchair, identified as Kok (also known as Ajayich) who was an Atuot by birth, but who had lived since childhood with maternal kin in Mandari.
As a doctor of powers he practicised locally, divining in the case of possession and advising in matters spiritual.
He is wearing a thick ivory arm ornament, which at that time was a prestigious object worn by wealthy people.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Atuot
NamedPerson:
Kok (Ajayich)
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate 6 (facing page 300) in Jean Buxton's
Religion and Healing in Mandari
(Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973), with the caption 'Kok: doctor of powers' [Chris Morton 15/2/2005]
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Medicine , Religion , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Arm
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
Ethnographic context - Kok's involvement as a doctor of powers is discussed in several points in Jean Buxton's Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973), especially pp 87-92.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 15/2/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
