Mandari women
53 x 50 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.2.58
Accession Number:
1998.97.76
Description:
A group portrait of three young Mandari women kneeling on the ground, wearing textile body cloths and strings of beads around their necks.
One of them is holding a pipe in her mouth.
All three have scarification patterns on their foreheads, somewhat after the manner of the Dinka, although the women in the centre has radiating rather than V-shaped lines.
These marks did not signify any initiation practice by the Mandari, and were done for aesthetically pleasing effect only.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Tali
Group:
Mandari Dari
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Ornament , Textile , Body Art , Narcotic
Keyword:
Ornament Neck , Textile , Ornament Arm , Pipe , Body Art Skin
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Other Information:
In Some Notes on the Mandari of Equatoria Province, A.E.
Sudan, (typescript notebook of c.1951 in Tylor Library, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford), book II, page 209, Jean Buxton notes that 'There are no age-sets for girls.
They cannot wear REM beads.
Or rather they do wear them, because they are given strings by the young men, but the wearing of them has no significance, they can wear any colour they like.' [Chris Morton 18/1/2005]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 19/1/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
