Mandari Köbora boy and display ox
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.23
Accession Number:
1998.97.383
Description:
A Mandari Köbora boy in a cattle camp standing behind a display ox (sönö) holding a clay model of the animal in his hands.
The magnificent ox has large trained curving horns and dark markings with white splashes on the side, its ears clipped all around.
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).
Beyond, other oxen and cows can be seen in the kraal, with people gathered beyond near reed windscreens.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari Köbora
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate IVa (facing page 96) in Jean Buxton's
Chiefs and Strangers
(Oxford, Clarendon Press 1963) with the caption "'Favourite' Ox (
Sönö
) - Nile Köbora (note trained horns)' [Chris Morton 18/3/2005]
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Toy & Game , Settlement
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Toy , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
