Mandari youth performing
82 x 80 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.7.14
Accession Number:
1998.97.260.2
Description:
A group of Mandari youths with painted faces (perhaps in immitation of cattle markings) and wearing strings of rem beads up their waists, stand with young women at a gathering.
In the foreground a youth performs a dance movement that mimics the training of ox horns, the left across the muzzle and the right back and away from it.
The colour configuration of their beads exhibit relative age-grade status.
Age-grades among the western Mandari seem to have been a relatively recent, loosely defined or organized borrowing by youths from their Atuot neighbours, there being no memory of age-grades or even initiation in the past.
In general, the Mandari Köbora men wore more strings of beads around the waist than the Mandari 'Boronga' such as the Dari, but did not have the same age grade system as the latter.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ornament , Body Art , Bead , Body Language
Keyword:
Ornament Body , Body Art Paint
Activity:
Gesturing Hand
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 7/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
