Mandari doctor of powers
78 x 78 mm | Print colour
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.158.1 - Negative film Safety , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.158.1 - Negative film Safety , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
August 1958
Previous PRM Number:
JB.5.8A
Accession Number:
1998.97.158.2
Description:
A portrait of a man seated on a deckchair, identified as Kok (also known as Ajayich) who was an Atuot by birth, but who had lived since childhood with maternal kin in Mandari.
As a doctor of powers he practicised locally, divining in the case of possession and advising in matters spiritual.
He is wearing a thick ivory arm ornament, which at that time was a prestigious object worn by wealthy people.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
?1958
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Atuot
NamedPerson:
Kok (Ajayich)
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Medicine , Religion , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Arm
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Primary Documentation:
Note on print reverse ms ink stamp - "Kodacolour Print Made by Kodak limited, London August 1958"
Other Information:
Kok's involvement as a doctor of powers is discussed in several points in Jean Buxton's Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973), especially pp 87-92.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 15/2/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
