Mandari girls
54 x 52 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.68.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 55 mm)
1998.97.68.1 - Negative film nitrate , (55 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.2.50
Accession Number:
1998.97.68.2
Description:
A full length frontal portrait of two Mandari girls with ash decorated faces, wearing checked waist cloths and several strings of neck beads, one a coin pendant.
Harvested beans are laid out on the ground in the sun behind them to dry.
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 , Body Art , Agriculture and Horticulture , Domestic Life
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Neck , Textile , Body Art Paint
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 negative has been cropped on both sides.
[Chris Morton 18/1/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
