Mandari youth with display ox
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.17
Accession Number:
1998.97.377
Description:
A portrait of a Mandari youth in a cattle camp wearing rem beads around his waist standing beside his display ox (sönö) with horns being trained, which is lying next to its tethering peg.
The Mandari, in common with other cattle-keeping Nilotic peoples, prized contrasting markings on their cattle highly, and trained the horns of their special ox to grow across the muzzle (left horn) as well as away from the muzzle (right horn).
In the background a group of men are meeting in the shade of a low open-sided structure that is roofed with a pile of unthatched grass, probably a source of feed for the cows when not grazing.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Shelter , Settlement
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Building House Communal , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
