Mandari youth with spear and club
111 x 81 mm | Print colour
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.359.1 - Negative film Safety , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.359.1 - Negative film Safety , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.76
Accession Number:
1998.97.359.2
Description:
A full length portrait of a Mandari (?Köbora) youth brandishing a spear in his right hand and a club in his left, with an older man standing beside him, wearing a blue and orange belt of trade beads, which Buxton describes as being a trend she noticed on her 1958 visit, possibly used in the same way as the more conventional black-red contrast.
He has also whitened his body and hair to contrast with the tone of his face, contrast being an important aesthetic dimension of Mandari aesthetics.
Compare this technique with that of the youth who has whitened his face but not his body.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
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:
Weapon , Bead , Ornament
Keyword:
Spear , Club , Ornament Arm , Ornament Leg
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 16/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 16/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
