Mandari dance gathering
118 x 118 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.514.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.514.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.17.28
Accession Number:
1998.97.514.2
Description:
A line of youths of the rem eyor age set (young warriors approximately 18-21 in age) passing in front of the camera at a dance occasion holding clubs and wearing strings of rem beads around the waist, as well as single head plume decorations.
In their configuration, rem beads showed relative age-grade status.
Age-grades among the western Mandari seem to have been a relatively recent, loosely defined and organized borrowing by youths from their Atuot neighbours, there being no memory of age-grades or even initiation in the past.
Dances were frequent events, which provided the main opportunity for youths and girls to socialise together.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Tali
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Dance , Social Life , Ornament , Bead , Weapon
Keyword:
Dance Accessory , Ornament Body , Club
Activity:
Dancing
Event:
Dance
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Primary Documentation:
Note on print reverse ms pencil - "REMEYOR"
Other Information:
In Some Notes on the Mandari of Equatoria Province, A.E.
Sudan, (typescript notebook of c.1951 in Tylor Library, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford), book II, pages 200 onwards, Jean Buxton discusses the different male age grades in detail.
In addition she notes the colours of the beads (p.204) worn by those grades.
The youths in this image would have been wearing 'beads of a pale purplish pink.
These beads are particularly popular and have been going for a long time.' [Chris Morton 13/5/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 13/5/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
