Mandari youths making bead strings
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.14.10
Accession Number:
1998.97.449
Description:
A group of Mandari youths sitting in the shade of a tree, working beads into strings on a hide mat.
Youths wore such groups of beads around the neck, but another type, known as rem, were worn around the waist, and in their configuration showed age-grade status.
The absence of such beads shows these boys to be adwek, the stage from ages roughly ten to fourteen before boys enter an age-set.
Age-grades among the western Mandari seem to have been a relatively recent, loosely defined or organized borrowing by youths from their Atuot neighbours, there being no memory of age-grades or even initiation in the past.
This is a significant distinction between the Tali district Mandari and the Riverine 'Mandari' groups who claim to have always had age-grade organization.
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:
Ornament , Bead , Social Life
Keyword:
Ornament Arm
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 4/5/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
