Administrator in Mandari
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Same Image As:
2005.51.501
Previous PRM Number:
JB.6.40
Accession Number:
1998.97.202
Description:
A portrait of a colonial official seated on the root of a shade tree with other Mandari men seated on low bench seats nearby.
This may well be Paul P.
Howell, Jean Buxton's cousin, who was in the Sudan Political Service 1938-55.
Besides being involved in the Jonglei Canal project, Howell wrote a doctoral study in Nuer ethnography.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt? Jean Buxton?
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
European; Mandari
NamedPerson:
?Paul P. Howell
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Clothing , Colonial
Keyword:
Uniform
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
Professional and personal papers, including photographs, of Dr Paul P.
Howell O.B.E.
are in the collections of the Sudan Archive at the University of Durham library.
[Chris Morton 1/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 28/2/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
