Mandari man with display ox
56 x 42 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.15
Accession Number:
1998.97.375
Description:
A Mandari man and young woman standing beside a display ox (sönö) with large trained horns, both guiding its head gently toward the camera.
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).
This sönö may well be that of the man presenting it, and just behind it is a youth standing beside a calf with excellent markings also, perhaps his own young display ox.
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 , Ornament , Textile , Bead
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Ornament Body , Textile
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
