Mandari courting hut

54 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver

There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.150.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)

Date of Print:

Unknown

Previous PRM Number:

JB.5.1

Accession Number:

1998.97.150.2

Description:

A young woman with a black ostrich plume in her hair standing on the steps of a raised lomore or courting hut in western Mandari. There were one or more such huts in a homestead belonging to a lineage or extended family, and were places where girls of courting age met young men in the evenings and slept there overnight. A white band painted around the entrance makes them known to others as a lomore.

Photographer:

Jean Carlile Buxton

Date of Photo:

1950 - 1952

Region:

[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali

Group:

Mandari Dari

Publication History:

Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Fig. 1 in Jean Buxtons' article "Girl's Courting Huts in Western Mandari" Man , No.56, April 1963, p.49, with the caption "Fig. 1. Girls' courting hut, Mandari" [Chris Morton 28/1/2005]

PRM Source:

Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Acquired:

Donated 1988

Other Owners:

Jean Buxton Collection

Class:

Shelter , Social Life , Ornament

Keyword:

Building House Women's , Ornament Hair

Documentation:

See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.

Recorder:

Christopher Morton 28/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]