Mandari Köbora youths with display oxen
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.41
Accession Number:
1998.97.323
Description:
Two Mandari Köbora youths at a dry-season cattle camp holding the tethers of their display oxen (sönö) that both have small horns being trained, the left to cross the muzzle, the right to arch away.
This is done by cutting the horn, which then grows against the cut.
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
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
