Mandari women at cattle camp
56 x 46 mm | Negative film Safety
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.74
Accession Number:
1998.97.357
Description:
Two Mandari (Köbora) young women wearing numerous bead strings gifted by admirers, sitting next to an old woman with a small child on her lap.
The girl to the left is wearing a bead belt of blue and orange trade beads, which Buxton describes as being a trend she noticed on her 1958 visit, possibly used in the same way as the more conventional black-red contrast.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
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:
Bead , Ornament , Child Care , Narcotic , Textile
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Body , Pipe , Textile
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
In Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973) Jean Buxton notes (page 401) that 'Of the three colours in artistic design, red is traditionally used on its own and black and white in planned contrast.
On my return to Mandari in 1958, however, I found a dark navy-blue trade-bead used in combination with an orange bead in the waist-bands worn by girls.
The combination gave broad alternating bands of vertical colour-perhaps a variation on a black-red theme?' [Chris Morton 16/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 16/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
