Mandari doctor of Powers
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.8.17
Accession Number:
1998.97.282
Description:
A head and shoulders portrait of Kok (also known as Ajayich), a Mandari doctor of Powers, who diagnosed illness through communication with spirits.
An Atuot by birth, he had lived since childhood with maternal kin in Mandari.
He is standing in front of a homestead shrine to a Power.
This may be the occasion discussed in some detail by Buxton at the homestead of a man called Nyökeru where Kok was involved in the diagnosis of his illness.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari
NamedPerson:
Kok (Ajayich)
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ritual , Ritual , Religion
Keyword:
Shrine
Event:
Ceremony
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
The occasion and events of the visit of Jean Buxton to Nyökeru's homestead are described in detail as 'Seance no.2.
Treatment in the homsetad of Nyökeru' in Jean Buxton's Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973), pages 86-97.
[Chris Morton 8/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
