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Studio group of women

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha

Description: A group studio portrait of four young woman wearing numerous pendant ornaments and fringed skirts, with a hookah placed nearby. One of them is described in another image as a Gawazieh dancer.

Studio portrait of dancers

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha

Description: A studio portrait of two young women on a couch. The girl to the right has cicatrices on her abdomen and arms, and they both have pendant and bead ornaments in their hair.

Dinka women thatching hut

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt

Description: Two young Rek Dinka women completing the thatch apex of a hut, wearing skin aprons edged with beads

Portrait of a Zande boy

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard

Description: A profile portrait of a boy (identified as 'tame Makana', a younger brother of Makana) wearing a metal bead neck ornament.

Shilluk man with neck ornaments

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: A portrait of a youth with huts in the background. He is wearing both head and neck ornaments, including what seem to be two Arab leather charm cases. The distinctive dotted initiation scars across the forehead are also visible.

Mandari male group portrait

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton

Description: A formal group portrait of four Mandari men, two seated and two standing behind. They are all dressed in European shorts and shirts. The man standing to the right has a photograph in his hand, presumably given to him by Buxton.

Family portrait in Mandari

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton

Description: A man wearing a long light tunic and turban posing for the camera in his homestead, holding the hands of two of his children, with another older daughter standing beside them.

Sheikh Ismail Osman

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat

Description: Portrait of Sheikh Nail Osman in tunic and turban.

Portrait of a Baka man

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha

Description: A vignette head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a Baka man.

Beja Hadendoa men with swords

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat

Description: Portrait of two Beja Hadendoa men with swords and daggers.

Zande man

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha

Description: A vignette upper body full face portrait of a Zande male, his hair braided into strands at the sides and in two bunches on top, a hair pin placed through one bunch. He has several dotted scarification marks on his forehead, as well as dot and chevron marks on his abdomen.

Portrait of a Zande woman

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha

Description: An upper body profile portrait of a young Zande woman, her hair finely braided. She has a number of dotted scarification marks on her upper arm as well as dotted designs on her abdomen.

Portrait of a Mandari youth

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton

Description: A three-quarter length portrait of a Mandari youth wearing Tshirt and shorts, posed in front of a pink-flowering bush.

Shilluk woman holding jar

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha

Description: A full length portrait of a young Shilluk woman dressed in an animal skin, holding a large vessel on her head.

Anglo-Egyptian soldier and woman

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton

Description: A full length portrait of a soldier of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium authority (1899-1955) holding a rifle and wearing a tunic uniform and hat with regimental plume, with a woman in an Arab-style body cloth standing next to him holding a baby, with a small child between them. Perhaps this is his wife and children?

Mandari family group

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton

Description: A group portrait of a man, woman and three children standing in front of a hut.

Mandari doctor of powers

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton

Description: A portrait of a man seated on a deckchair, identified as Kok (also known as Ajayich) who was an Atuot by birth, but who had lived since childhood with maternal kin in Mandari. As a doctor of powers he practicised locally, divining in the case of possession and advising in matters spiritual. He is wearing a thick ivory arm ornament, which at that time was a prestigious object worn by wealthy people.

Anglo-Egyptian auxiliaries and women

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton

Description: A full length group portrait of two men in uniforms of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium authority (1899-1955) wearing a belted tunic and a hat with regimental plume, two women in floral European-style dresses standing beside them. Both men have their heads turned half away from the camera, perhaps a military style.

Portrait of an Ingessana man

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard

Description: A head-and-shoulders rear view of a man wearing a bead necklace (given to him by Evans-Pritchard) with an overcoat hung as a backdrop. The man is identified as Dal, Evans-Pritchard's chief informant among the Ingessana.