56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.17.61
Accession Number:
1998.97.547
Description:
Youths and young women dance in a group with their arms around each other, wearing beaded ornaments across their foreheads.
Several youths are wearing spectacles or sunglasses, and one girl is wearing a pair of white spectacle frames as an ornament on her forehead.
This group seem to be associated with a mission or other colonial establishment, the brick building of which can be seen behind them in another image.
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]
