Mandari youth with display ox
43 x 40 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.376.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 82 mm)
1998.97.376.2 - Print gelatin silver , (104 x 82 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.16
Accession Number:
1998.97.376.1
Description:
A Mandari youth near a cattle camp wearing numerous rem beads around his waist standing beside his display ox (sönö) with large trained horns decorated with tassels.
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 , Animal Gear , Settlement
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
This negative has been cut down all around.
[Chris Morton 18/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
