Mandari youth with display ox
107 x 107 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.372.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.372.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.12
Accession Number:
1998.97.372.2
Description:
A Mandari youth, possibly at a dry-season cattle camp, standing just beyond his display ox (sönö) with large trained horns.
The Mandari, in common with other cattle-keeping Nilotic peoples, prized contrasting markings on their cattle highly, and trained the horns of their special ox to grow across the muzzle (left horn) as well as away from the muzzle (right horn).
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Primary Documentation:
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "[some words indicipherable] 7&8 then sleep.
If a man has died...3 months...in belly...3 days afterwards."
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 17/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
