Mandari girl
108 x 83 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.2.44
Accession Number:
1998.97.62.3
Description:
An upper body portrait of a Mandari girl wearing strings of beads around neck.
Girls often wore beads given to them by male admirers, but they did not indicate any age sets or grades amongst the women.
She also has scarification patterns on her forehead after the manner of the nearby Dinka, as well as decorative lines on her abdomen.
These did not indicate any initiation procedure however but were done for aesthetically pleasing effect only.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Mandari Dari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ornament , Body Art
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Body Art Skin
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
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, page 209, Jean Buxton notes that 'There are no age-sets for girls.
They cannot wear REM beads.
Or rather they do wear them, because they are given strings by the young men, but the wearing of them has no significance, they can wear any colour they like.' [Chris Morton 18/1/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
