Mandari cattle camp
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.7
Accession Number:
1998.97.367
Description:
A scene in a Mandari Köbora cattle camp, with a man and children looking to the camera.
To the left is a reed fence consisting of vertical and horizontal reeds tied together in a loose framework.
This fence seems to keep cattle away from a large circular hearth area (note build-up of ash layer) where smoky cattle-dung fires were lit at night to discourage mosquitos.
These hearths were areas of social interaction for those in the camp also, and the ash used in body decoration, cleansing etc.
This may well be in a Köbora camp which Buxton visited in March and April of 1950 and 1951.
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:
Settlement , Social Life , Animal Husbandry , Fire
Keyword:
Fence
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 17/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
