Mandari homestead shrine
103 x 103 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.8.12
Accession Number:
1998.97.277.2
Description:
A Mandari homestead in Jarra village with a shrine to the Power Mutia agok in the foreground.
Standing in front of a raised hut is the Doctor of Powers called Ako Akurukway, with the homestead head's wife and child and mother standing beside him.
The homestead head was the brother of a man called Asek, who had been asked by Ako to set up this shrine some months before when he had fallen ill.
The occasion of this photograph was when Buxton had accompanied Ako to visit Asek to continue questioning the Power.
Asek, who had become apprenticed to Ako, was delayed by another diagnosis elsewhere, but eventually joined them a day later.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Jarra
Group:
Mandari Jarra
NamedPerson:
Ako Akurukway, Asek
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ritual , Ritual , Religion , Shelter
Keyword:
Shrine , Building House
Event:
Ceremony
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
The occasion and events of the visit of Jean Buxton and Ako Akurukway to Asek's homestead are described in detail as 'Seance no.1.
Treatment of Asek of Jarra Clan' in Jean Buxton's Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973), pages 78-86.
[Chris Morton 8/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
