56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.17.59
Accession Number:
1998.97.545
Description:
Men dressed in European shorts and vests dance in the foreground to the accompaniment of clapping by young women and youths sitting in a semi-circle around them.
Besides wearing beaded head and neck ornaments with their body cloths, several of the youths are wearing spectacles or sunglasses.
This group seem to be associated with a mission or other colonial establishment, the brick building of which can be seen in another image behind the group.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Dance , Clothing , Ornament
Keyword:
Spectacles , Ornament Head
Activity:
Dancing , Performing
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 17/5/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
