Mandari girl and youth dancing
104 x 104 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.18.6
Accession Number:
1998.97.558.2
Description:
An upper body portrait of an adolescent girl wearing a necklet of numerous strings of pink beads with a lower string of red and white beads, with a youth dancing with arms gesturing in imitation of his display-ox's trained horns behind her.
On their faces they have painted lines of white pigment, and in her hand she is holding a small switch with green leaves.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
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 , ?Ritual , Bead , Body Art
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Ornament Neck , Body Art Skin
Activity:
Singing , Dancing
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
In Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973) Jean Buxton notes (page 401) that 'Of the three colours in artistic design, red is traditionally used on its own and black and white in planned contrast.
On my return to Mandari in 1958, however, I found a dark navy-blue trade-bead used in combination with an orange bead in the waist-bands worn by girls.
The combination gave broad alternating bands of vertical colour-perhaps a variation on a black-red theme?' [Chris Morton 23/5/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 23/5/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
