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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.
Country location: South Sudan
Jean Buxton at a picnic table

Dinka procession at Wau

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: Onlookers watching a procession of Dinka youths playing trumpets at a procession at the Roman Catholic mission at Wau, the large church visible in the background.
Country location: South Sudan
Dinka procession at Wau

Portrait of Dinka youths

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: A head-and-shoulders group portrait of three Dinka youths, one looking over the shoulders of the others, one of whom has three V-shaped scars on his forehead.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of Dinka youths

Portrait of Lienhardt's servant

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: A portrait of Oxford anthropologist Godfrey Lienhardt's Dinka servant polishing shoes on the steps of a house during his fieldwork.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of Lienhardt's servant

Portrait of Gordon Hickson

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: A member of the Sudan Political Service, identified as Gordon Hickson, sitting in his home at Aweil smoking a pipe and reading.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of Gordon Hickson

Dinka dance gathering

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: Youths and girls at a dance gathering.
Country location: South Sudan
Dinka dance gathering

Dinka women thatching hut

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: Two young Rek Dinka women completing the thatch apex of a hut, wearing skin aprons edged with beads
Country location: South Sudan
Dinka women thatching hut

Dinka fishing camp

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: A group of women at a Dinka fishing camp on the banks of the river, with large baskets and traps visible.
Country location: South Sudan
Dinka fishing camp

Greek merchant's shop, Gogrial

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: The shop in Gogrial where Oxford anthropologist Godfrey Lienhardt bought supplies during his fieldwork in the late 1940s. At the counter of the shop (owned by the Greek merchant Dimitri Yaloris) is one of his sons by his Rek Dinka wife Ayen Achom.
Country location: South Sudan
Greek merchant's shop, Gogrial

Bishop Mazoon with group

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: A formal group portrait of the Italian Bishop Edward Mazoon, Bishop of Bahr-el-Ghazal (later El Obeid) with another missionary and African members of the mission on the steps of a building.
Country location: South Sudan
Bishop Mazoon with group

Buxton showing magazines to Mandari girls

Collection: pittriversmuseum.godfreylienhardt
Description: Jean Buxton with a group of Mandari girls and her Mandari police sergeant, looking at pictures in magazines together. It is possible that the photograph was taken by her academic supervisor Godfrey Lienhardt who visited her during her fieldwork in 1950.
Country location: Sudan
Buxton showing magazines to Mandari girls
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