Mandari cattle crossing the Nile
56 x 52 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.48
Accession Number:
1998.97.330
Description:
A view of the Nile from under the eaves of a building, possibly at Terakeka.
In the distance cattle can be seen being herded across the Nile.
Such crossings were usually done on one day soon after the rains began by those who kept their herds on river islands during the dry season.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Terakeka
Group:
Mandari ?Tsera
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Topography
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Rivers & Streams
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
Written on the back of another print in the collection [1998.97.289] is a note which reads: "Every year when the rains come the Mandari tribe who live on the islands in the dry season with their cattle have to swim them across the Nile to the main land.
All this is done in one day and it isn't often one gets the opportunity to witness it.
They always lose one or two to the crocodiles in the process.
Seen Terakaker April 18th 1952."
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
