Mandari Köbora dug-out
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.44
Accession Number:
1998.97.326
Description:
Several Mandari Köbora men pushing off a dug-out with several youths seated inside.
The Köbora had dry-season cattle camps on islands in the Nile where they kept their herds in areas of better grazing and water supply.
People would frequently move between these island camps and the wet-season villages close by, either visiting or relaying goods such as milk and foodstuffs.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari Köbora
Publication History:
Contemporary Publication - Reproduced as Plate V (facing page 112) in Jean Buxton's
Chiefs and Strangers
(Oxford, Clarendon Press 1963) with the caption 'Crossing to cattle camp - Nile Köbora' [Chris Morton 16/3/2005]
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Transport , Ornament , Weapon
Keyword:
Boat Dug-out , Ornament Arm , Spear , Shield
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 14/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
