Mandari women and children
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.2.23C
Accession Number:
1998.97.41
Description:
An upper body portrait of a Mandari woman holding a baby on her hip, wearing a neck ornament of teeth and a decorated bead waist band.
She has bars of dotted cicatrices on her abdomen and additional scarification lines on her face.
These marks were made for display purposes.
In the background is another woman and child.
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:
Child Care , Ornament , Body Art
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Ornament Body , Body Art Skin
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 26/11/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
