Mandari courting hut
54 x 54 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.13.24
Accession Number:
1998.97.437
Description:
A young woman with a black feather plume in her hair and a girl sit on the steps of a raised lomore or courting hut in western Mandari.
There were one or more such huts in a homestead belonging to a lineage or extended family, and were spaces where girls of courting age met young men in the evenings and slept there overnight.
A white band painted around the entrance makes them known to others as a lomore.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Mandari Dari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Shelter
Keyword:
Building House Women's
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
The same girl with a black plume and lomore hut can be seen in Fig.
1 in Jean Buxtons' article "Girl's Courting Huts in Western Mandari" Man, No.56, April 1963, p.49, with the caption "Fig.
1.
Girls' courting hut, Mandari" [Chris Morton 28/1/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 28/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
