Mandari Köbora man with display ox
56 x 50 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.40
Accession Number:
1998.97.322
Description:
A Mandari Köbora man at a dry-season cattle camp standing next to a display ox (sönö) with large upward curving horns.
The youth has marked his own forehead with two white lines mimicking the form of these horns.
The image suggests that Buxton is attempting to visually demonstrate the bovine influence at the heart of Nilotic cattle-keeping aesthetics and body art.
The fact that he is not wearing any rem waist beads, a common practice among young Köbora men, may suggest that he is married.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari Köbora
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Settlement , Body Art
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Cattle Camp , Body Art Paint
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
