Mandari dance gathering
105 x 77 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.17.19
Accession Number:
1998.97.505.3
Description:
A close-up of a youth at a dance occasion wearing numerous rem beads around his waist and his head smeared with white (perhaps ash) paste.
In the paste he has made a swirling line, perhaps immitating the trained horns of his favourite ox.
In their configuration, rem beads showed relative age-grade status.
Age-grades among the western Mandari seem to have been a relatively recent, loosely defined and organized borrowing by youths from their Atuot neighbours, there being no memory of age-grades or even initiation in the past.
Dances were frequent events, which provided the main opportunity for youths and girls to socialise together.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Tali
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Dance , Social Life , Ornament , Toilet , Bead
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Ornament Body , Hair
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
This is a cutdown print enlargement of [1998.97.505].
[Chris Morton 12/5/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 12/5/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
