Buxton showing magazines to Mandari girls
49 x 43 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.19.3
Accession Number:
1998.97.568
Description:
Jean Buxton with a group of Mandari girls and her Mandari police sergeant, Makelele Nyayo (who was charged with looking after her personal safety) looking at pictures in magazines together.
It seems likely that this is Buxton's own room, with her bed visible in the background.
It is possible that the photograph was taken by her academic supervisor Godfrey Lienhardt who visited her during her fieldwork in 1950.
Photographer:
?Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
?1950
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel ?Tali
Group:
Mandari
NamedPerson:
Makelele Nyayo, Jean Buxton
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Shelter , Military , Photography , Social Life
Keyword:
Uniform , Building Interior , Book
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Primary Documentation:
In
Chiefs and Strangers
(Oxford, Clarendon Press 1963) Jean Buxton notes (page xi) that '...
I owe a great debt to my supervisor Dr R.
G.
Lienhardt on whose help and ideas I have drawn throughout my anthropological work.
When I arrived in the Sudan he was working with the Dinka, and came to meet me and then spent a few weeks with me in Mandari country.' [Chris Morton 24/5/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 23/5/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
