Mandari lineage elder
54 x 53 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.159.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 51 mm)
1998.97.159.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 51 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.5.9
Accession Number:
1998.97.159.2
Description:
A portrait of an elder wearing a textile tunic and wearing three sets of neck ornaments, seated on a deckchair.
He is identified as Möjut Awol, head of the Dakotia lineage of the Dari clan in Mandari, one of six landowning lineages of the Dari clan living in the vicinity of Tali.
Buxton dedicated her first book to this Mandari clan with whom she worked most closely during her fieldwork.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Mandari Dari Dakotia
NamedPerson:
Möjut Awol
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as the Frontispiece to Jean Buxton's Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973) with the caption, 'Möjut Awol - Head of Dakotia
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lineage of Dari clan'.
[Chris Morton 15/2/2005]
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Clothing , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Neck
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 15/2/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
