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Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A full face studio portrait of a seated woman wearing numerous pendant ornaments from her braided hair and around her neck.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A formal portrait of a member of the Khartoum elite, named as Kadi of Khartoum, holding a rosary.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.lebennelsonmoro
Description: Burnt huts at Bur village in the Shilluk kingdom. The destruction was carried out by pro-government Nuer militia under Gabriel Tany-Giny in 2005 after the local leader Cam Ocol transferred his allegiance from the Sudanese government to the SPLA under John Garang. This incident demonstrates the difficulty of representing the conflict in Sudan in simple north/south terms, since the reality on the ground has often been far more complex.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.lebennelsonmoro
Description: People meeting to discuss local welfare issues with a local government official (blue shirt in centre) in Zurzur village, Melut County. In particular there were issues sounding the quantities of food delivered by the World Food Program.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.lebennelsonmoro
Description: Soldiers of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army marching at Malakal football stadium during the ceremonies held there in July 2006 to mark the first anniversary of the death of John Garang.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: An upper body profile portrait of an Avokaya man with feather ornamented hair pin and bead strings around the neck. His upper lip is pierced by a thin metal ring ornament.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: A portrait of two Mandari women (probably married women) sitting in the shade of a large tree, wearing textile body cloths and a string of large beads around their necks.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: An upper body portrait of a Mandari man wearing an animal hair fringed headdress.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.lebennelsonmoro
Description: Local Nuer fishermen at Zurzur village.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A vignette profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A vignette profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A head and shoulders profile portrait of an initiated man with heavy lines of scarification on the forehead. The operation (gar) is a severe one which causes much blood loss, across the forehead from ear to ear. Boys were normally initiated between the ages of 14-16, and a group initiated during a number of successive years belong to an age-set. After initiation a youth is prohibited from milking, able to marry, gains a spear and an ox from which he takes his ox-name, and was able to go on cattle raids against the Dinka.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: A three-quarter length portrait of a Mandari man wearing an arabic-style tunic and red, yellow and green beads around the neck. He has a number of radiating decorative scars on the forehead, which both sexes adopted from the Dinka, although without the connotations or ritual of initiation which accompany such markings among that group.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: An upper body full face portrait of a Mandari youth wearing neck ornaments, including a bone or tooth half-moon shaped pendant. He also has several radiating lines of scarification on his forehead with a central vertical line. These marks were made by the Mandari for aesthetic effect only, and were particularly favoured by the Mandari around Tali.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A posed group of seven women wearing textile body cloths. It is unclear where this photograph was taken, but these women may well be slave women living in Khartoum or another large settlement. Their description as 'African' women is meant to suggest their non-Arab ethnicity, and hence suggests that Buchta came into contact with them in a mostly Arabised settlement.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man scraping the meat off a skin suspended by a rope from a pole next to a hut, with a tethered donkey beyond. The skin is first washed in a liquid prepared from the mudus tree, which grows locally. Much of the leather produced was sold to merchants and was traded in Omdurman where it was rated highly.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A boy (identified as Bisa) sitting on the ground playing an improvised single stringed instrument, consisting of a long stick bent over with a string attached, which is fastened to the ground.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A portrait of a seated man (identified as a subject of Badinda, probably a local governor) playing a thumb-piano instrument known as a kundi.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: A group of men working inside a boat moored at the riverbank. Other images show that these men are part of a group of fishermen on the Nile.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.lebennelsonmoro
Description: A Sudan Peoples Liberation Army tank entering Juba in December 2005.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: A portrait of Oxford anthropologist Jean Buxton sitting at a picnic table set up by herself and her supervisor Godfrey Lienhardt in the shade of a large tree at Gogrial. Lienhardt and Buxton visited each other during fieldwork in 1950 whilst he was working with the Dinka around Gogrial and she with the Mandari around Terakeka and Tali.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: Nuer porters cutting up an elephant shot by Thesiger with their spearheads. Big game hunting formed a significant element of Thesiger's activities in Western Nuerland, and he later acknowledged that it facilitated his acceptance by the Nuer, and provided nutrition for his porters, who called themselves 'Kwechuor's men' after his ox-name.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: A profile portrait of a seated Shilluk youth wearing feather hair ornaments, ear and arm ornaments. The characteristic initiation dots along the youths forehead are visible reaching across to the ear.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: Group portrait of Fur men, standing, several of whom are holding spears, gathered around a dead lion shot by Wilfred Thesiger to spare them from losing further livestock.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Nuer chiefs, RAF Khartoum 1928, standing in front of biplane outside a hanger.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Old Turkish fort with soldiers at El Obeid.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: An RAF biplane flying over Kassala.
Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Old Turkish fort (Muduria) with soldiers at El Obeid.

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