Mandari grave marker
106 x 83 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.8.2
Accession Number:
1998.97.267.2
Description:
The grave and grave memorial markers of the senior wife of Chief Korondo of Dari clan.
The upright post has incised markings at the head of the pole indicating head hair, and those incisions on the knot half-way down the navel.
This grave was located close to the Dari clan meeting tree, visible to the right with a meeting under way.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Dali
Group:
Mandari Dari
NamedPerson:
Chief Korondo
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Fig.
5 (facing page 135) in Jean Buxton's
Religion and Healing in Mandari
(Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973) with the caption '5.
Memorial with four notched poles: grave of the senior wife of Chief korondo.
Incised markings at the head of the pole represent the hair; those on the knot half-way down, the navel.
At the right a dispute is heard at the Dari meeting-tree.' [Chris Morton 7/3/2005]
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Death
Keyword:
Grave , Grave Marker
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
Archive note - This print has been produced portrait and so misses some visual information to the right, especiallt the meeting tree.
[Chris Morton 7/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 7/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
