Mandari grave marker
110 x 108 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.8.3
Accession Number:
1998.97.268
Description:
A Mandari grave with ornamented grave memorial posts, besides which has been planted a spiny Euphorbia cutting, to protect the grave from scavenging animals.
Two of the posts have had wood cut away to leave raised sections up the length of the post, some of which have been further incised.
The other post is a thinner unmodified pole.
In a somewhat representational way, Mandari incised markings on grave posts often indicated hair and other body features.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Dali
Group:
Mandari ?Dari
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate 4 (facing page 134) in Jean Buxton's
Religion and Healing in Mandari
(Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973) with the caption '4.
Ornamented memorial.
The spiny Euphorbia cutting 'protects' the newly made grave from scavenging animals.' [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.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 7/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
