Mandari cow being bled
53 x 53 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.361.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
1998.97.361.1 - Negative film nitrate , (56 x 56 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.1
Accession Number:
1998.97.361.2
Description:
A Mandari cow being bled by youths at a dry-season cattle camp.
One youth holds the head still by holding its horns, whilst another holds a tether which has been tied tightly around its neck to raise the vein, and a third holds the gourd to catch the blood.
When they have collected enough they will loosen the tether and smear the cut with dung.
Bleeding was carried out to collect a dietary supplement during the dry season, the blood being boiled and added to porridge, or else hardened and roasted.
It was also considered to be beneficial to the cows themselves to be bled occasionally.
This may well be in a Köbora camp which Buxton visited in March and April of 1950 and 1951.
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 Gear , Animal Husbandry
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 17/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
