Mandari group at warplay
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.3.17
Accession Number:
1998.97.109
Description:
Looking back and across a large group of Mandari, many of them men, brandishing spears, bows and arrows, apparently threatening an opposing group out of frame to the left, possibly ritualised battle within the context of a dance or other large social gathering.
Some of the men are adopting body postures similar to those made by Nuer and Dinka groups during such mock fighting, such as crouching on one knee.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Khor Moni
Group:
Mandari Köbora
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
?Dance , Social Life , Weapon
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Spear , Bow , Arrow
Activity:
?Dancing
Event:
?Dance
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 24/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
