Mandari ?doctor of Powers
115 x 115 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.283.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.283.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.8.18
Accession Number:
1998.97.283.3
Description:
A full length portrait of a Mandari man wearing a black goat-skin and a brimmed woven hat, holding a head-rest.
He is possibly a doctor of Powers, who diagnosed illness through communication with spirits.
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:
Clothing Skin , Clothing Headgear , Furnishings
Keyword:
[Animal Goat] , Headrest
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
Remains of adhesive sticky strips on the print reverse suggest that this print was fixed into an album or elsewhere at some time.
[Chris Morton 10/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 10/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
