Mandari grave marker
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.8.6
Accession Number:
1998.97.271
Description:
In the foreground is a grave mound and grave memorial markers consisting of six thick poles leaning in towards each other over the top.
Beyond is a hut within the homestead, raised on piles, with young women visible on the platform and to the side, looking on.
This hut may well be a lomore or girls' courting hut.
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:
Death , Shelter
Keyword:
Grave , Grave Marker , Building House Pile , Building House Women's
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
Jean Buxton describes the lomore hut in her article Girls' Courting Huts in Western Mandari, Man, No.56, April 1963, pp.49-51.
[Chris Morton 8/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
