Mandari mother and child
53 x 45 mm | Print gelatin silver
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.2.67
Accession Number:
1998.97.85.2
Description:
A portrait of a kneeling Mandari mother holding her baby in her left arm, a goat standing near her right arm.
She is wearing a married woman's goat-skin apron as well as a neck string of what may be teeth.
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:
Clothing Skin , Ornament , Child Care
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Arm , Animal Goat
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 I, page 33, Jean Buxton notes that 'When a woman is married she always wears a skin - usually that of a goat from which the hairs have been removed, and which is treated with fat to make it soft and pliable and is then coloured a rich rust brown with red ochre - tied round her waist so that it hangs down behind.
Nowadays this skin is beginning to be replaced with pieces of cloth, which in an older woman is often tied across the breasts.' [Chris Morton 20/1/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 20/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
