Mandari youths wearing beads
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.7.16
Accession Number:
1998.97.262
Description:
A group portrait of three standing Mandari youths wearing strings of rem beads up their waists, their arms around each other.
Another similar grouping stands just beyond them.
The colour configuration of these beads exhibited 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 , Bead
Keyword:
Ornament Body
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 7/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
