Mandari dry season lagoon
91 x 88 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.6.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.6.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.1.6
Accession Number:
1998.97.6.2
Description:
Looking from the bankside of a lagoon in the dry season, with fires and some settlement barely visible on the far bank, probably a dry season camp.
This is probably either Lake Moni or nearby, in the area where Buxton carried out four months fieldwork among the Köbora.
This group, along with the Tsera, are generally known as riverine Mandari, although they are somewhat distinct from the Western Mandari among whom Buxton mainly worked.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Khor Moni
Group:
Mandari Köbora
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Topography , Settlement
Keyword:
Lakes , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
In Chiefs and Strangers (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1963) Jean Buxton notes (page 3, 138) that 'River-dwelling 'Mandari' live south of the Aliab and Bor Dinka, on the west and east banks of the Nile, along a narrow strip of country behind the flood-line...After spending February and March for two years running among the Köbora on the Nile, who have large expanses of open dry-season grazing, plentiful Nile water, and big lagoons surrounded with lush grass and filled with fish and other edible aquatic animals, I was greatly struck by the dry and barren conditions of Mandari country." [Chris Morton 1/11/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 1/11/2004 [Southern Sudan Project]
