Mandari Köbora youths

Mandari Köbora youths
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.39


Accession Number:
1998.97.321
Description:
A group of Köbora men posed for the camera at a cattle camp, one to the fore wearing a set of rem display waist beads. The other men do not wear so many beads, suggesting that they are married. One of them holds the tether of an ox partially in frame to the right, possibly the foregrounded youth's 'display' ox.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari Köbora
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Settlement , Bead
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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