Portrait of Mandari youths
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.122.2 - Print gelatin silver , (54 x 54 mm )
1998.97.122.2 - Print gelatin silver , (54 x 54 mm )
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.3.30
Accession Number:
1998.97.122.1
Description:
A portrait of two standing Mandari youths wearing numerous strings of rem waist beads, one carrying a parrying shield, with a groove in the top for holding a spear next to it with one hand.
Among the Mandari Köbora the rem beads did not have the same age grade associations as with those Mandari living around Tali.
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 , Weapon
Keyword:
Ornament Body , Shield
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 25/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
