Mandari cattle camp
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.9.61
Accession Number:
1998.97.343
Description:
A view of an empty Mandari dry season cattle camp, with two posts rising in the close foreground, one of which seems to have been blackened and stripped.
The Köbora sometimes kept their cattle in camps on islands in the Nile where sufficient and water was available in the dry season, with frequent visits taking place between these locations and wet season villages some distance away.
The framing of the posts suggests that Buxton is attempting to visually demonstrate the important bovine influence at the heart of Nilotic cattle-keeping culture and aesthetics, suggesting that they are mimicking display ox horns.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari ?Köbora
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Settlement
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Cattle Camp
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 15/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
