Mandari youths wearing bead ornaments
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.18.1
Accession Number:
1998.97.553
Description:
A group of Mandari youths posed for the camera wearing numerous strings of rem age grade beads around the waist.
In their configuration these beads showed relative age-grade status among Mandari youths.
These youths probably belong to the youngest grade that wore beads (roughly ages 11-17), known as roti.
Age-grades among the western Mandari seem to have been a relatively recent, loosely defined or organized borrowing by youths from their Atuot neighbours, there being no memory of age-grades or even initiation in the past.
This is a significant distinction between the Tali district Mandari and the Riverine 'Mandari' groups who claim to have always had age-grade organization.
In the background can be seen Buxton's Landrover parked next to a hut.
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:
Ornament , Clothing Headgear , Transport , Music
Keyword:
Ornament Body , Wheel Vehicle Motor , Musical Instrument Wind
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 19/5/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
