Mandari women
56 x 56 mm | Negative film Safety
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.2.72
Accession Number:
1998.97.90
Description:
A three-quarter length portrait of two young Mandari women in a cattle camp wearing textile waist cloths and a large number of mostly red bead strings around their waist, as well as some around the neck [poor negative].
Such bead strings were often given to young women by courting male youths.
Youths wear such rem beads as a way of denoting their age grade grouping and for display.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
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 , Ornament
Keyword:
Textile , Ornament Neck , Ornament Body
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 21/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
