Mandari schoolchildren
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.6.75
Accession Number:
1998.97.237
Description:
A group of Mandari schoolboys posed for the camera, their teacher placing a hand on the head of one of the boys kneeling at the front.
This may be the Catholic-sponsored school at Kiritnumbor that Buxton mentions visiting in 1951, having around 30 boys.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali Kiritnumbor
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Education
Keyword:
School
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
In Religion and Healing in Mandari (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1973) Jean Buxton notes (page 15) that 'Schools in the remoter areas almost inevitably failed.
At Tali the position was more favourable.
The Catholic-sponsored school at Kiritnumbor, sited near permanent water, had around thirty boys when I visited it in 1951.
This and all the remaining bush schools were later closed, and a government elementary school opened at tali; offering bording facilities.' [Chris Morton 25/4/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 3/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
