Mandari youth with display ox
104 x 95 mm | Print gelatin silver
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
1998.97.382.1 - Negative film Safety , (56 x 51 mm)
1998.97.382.1 - Negative film Safety , (56 x 51 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.10.22
Accession Number:
1998.97.382.2
Description:
A Mandari youth in a cattle camp standing beside his display ox (sönö) which has large trained curving horns and dark markings with white splashes on the side.
Most Mandari cattle are light coloured with little marking, and so these mottled markings would have been highly valued.
The Mandari, in common with other cattle-keeping Nilotic peoples, prized contrasting markings on their cattle highly, and often trained the horns of their special ox to grow across the muzzle (left horn) as well as away from the muzzle (right horn).
The youth has a dark hair neck ornament with a metal disk neck ornament behind, and has whitened the top of his forehead, perhaps to mimick the markings of his ox.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1958
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel
Group:
Mandari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Animal Husbandry , Ornament
Keyword:
Animal Cattle , Ornament Neck
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 18/3/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
