Mandari lineage elder
56 x 54 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.5.10
Accession Number:
1998.97.160
Description:
An upper body portrait of an elder wearing a textile tunic and wearing three sets of neck ornaments, seated on a deckchair [partial double exposure at top].
Beyond him the huts of a homestead can be seen.
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
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]
