Mandari girl
56 x 56 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.2.49
Accession Number:
1998.97.67.2
Description:
A three-quarter length frontal portrait of a young Mandari woman wearing a checked waist cloth and several strings of neck beads, one a coin pendant.
Another woman and youths look on from beyond.
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 , Textile
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Ear , Ornament Neck , Textile
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] This print represents a fuller image than the negative, which has been cropped.
[Chris Morton 18/1/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
