Mandari women
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.4.13A
Accession Number:
1998.97.141
Description:
A three-quarter length portrait of two young Mandari women standing in a homestead, both wearing sets of bead strings around their necks, as well as textile body wraps.
Such bead strings were often given to young women by courting male youths, who wear such rem beads as a way of denoting their age grade grouping and for display.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Mandari ?Dari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 28/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
