Mandari youth with display ox
56 x 53 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.18
Accession Number:
1998.97.378
Description:
A three-quarter length portrait of a Mandari youth in a cattle camp standing beside his dark coloured display ox (sönö) with large upcurving horns.
Most Mandari cattle are light coloured with little marking, and so this ox's dark and mottled markings would have been valued.
The Mandari, in common with other cattle-keeping Nilotic peoples, prized contrasting markings on their cattle highly, and often trained the horns of their special ox to grow in different directions.
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 , Ornament , Settlement
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Ornament Arm , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
