Search
Corner Image

Search

Search results:

Avokaya man

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.
Avokaya man

Mandari man

Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: An upper body portrait of a Mandari man wearing an animal hair fringed headdress.
Mandari man

Mandari youth

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.
Mandari youth

Jean Buxton at a picnic table

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.
Jean Buxton at a picnic table

Portrait of a Zande (Makaraka) man

Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A vignette upper body profile portrait of a Zande man with braided hair and wearing a neck ring. The Makaraka (this name for the Zande of the Odio area seems to be of Mittu origin) were part of the Zande kingdom and speak a dialect of the Zande language.
Portrait of a Zande (Makaraka) man

Portrait of a Baka man

Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A vignette head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a Baka man.
Portrait of a Baka man

Beja Hadendoa men with swords

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

Zande man

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.
Zande man

Portrait of a Zande woman

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 Zande woman
Items: 9

Period

Chrono Slider Loader
Add filter:
Ethnography and Anthropology Pitt Rivers Museum
Add filter

Collection

Topic

Content provider
Highlights Stories Collections
Topics About Contact
© 2022, Sudan Memory
Powered by Goobi viewer, Design by One

Note to user

Dear user,

In response to current developments in the web technology used by the Goobi viewer, the software no longer supports your browser.

Please use one of the following browsers to display this page correctly.

Thank you.