Mandari youths with display ox
53 x 53 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.19
Accession Number:
1998.97.379
Description:
A portrait of a Mandari youth leaning on his display ox (sönö), which has large trained curving horns, and shows the way in which the horn grows against the cut.
Most Mandari cattle are light coloured with little marking, and so these mottled markings (particularly around the face) would have been highly 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 across the muzzle (left horn) as well as away from the muzzle (right horn).
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
Keyword:
Animal Cattle
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
