Mandari girl and boys with display ox
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.373.2 - Print gelatin silver , (54 x 54 mm)
1998.97.373.2 - Print gelatin silver , (54 x 54 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.13
Accession Number:
1998.97.373.1
Description:
A Mandari girl with whitened hair, possibly at a dry-season cattle camp, standing beside a display ox (sönö) with large trained horns, her hand holding its hump which has some dark markings.
Two boys also stand beside the ox.
The Mandari, in common with other cattle-keeping Nilotic peoples, prized contrasting markings on their cattle highly, and trained the horns of their special ox to grow across the muzzle (left horn) as well as away from the muzzle (right horn).
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Body Art
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Body Art Paint
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 17/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
