Mandari youth with ox
56 x 56 mm | Negative film Safety
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.25
Accession Number:
1998.97.385
Description:
A Mandari ?Köbora youth in a cattle camp standing beside his display ox (sönö) which has large trained curving horns and dark mottled markings on a white base.
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).
The youth has made distinctive white markings on his face as if to mimick the curving horns of his ox.
He has also made streaked markings in the ash covering his chest, as if to mimick the wrinkled folds of the ox's chest.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
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:
Animal Husbandry , Body Art
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Body Art Paint
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
