Mandari homestead shrine
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.280.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.280.2 - Print gelatin silver , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.8.15
Accession Number:
1998.97.280.1
Description:
A Mandari homestead with a shrine to a Power in the foreground, with the Doctor of Powers called Kok (also known as Ajayich) standing beyond in a white tunic shirt with a group of people also looking on.
This may be the occasion discussed in some detail by Buxton at the homestead of a man called Nyökeru where Kok was involved in the diagnosis of his illness through spirit possession.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari
NamedPerson:
Kok (Ajayich)
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ritual , Ritual , Religion , Shelter
Keyword:
Shrine , Building House
Event:
Ceremony
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
The occasion and events of the visit of Jean Buxton to Nyökeru's homestead are described in detail as 'Seance no.2.
Treatment in the homsetad of Nyökeru' in Jean Buxton's Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973), pages 86-97.
[Chris Morton 8/3/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 8/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
