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Studio group of women

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.
Country location: Sudan
Studio group of women

Studio portrait of dancers

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.
Country location: Sudan
Studio portrait of dancers

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

Portrait of a Zande boy

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Zande boy

Shilluk man with neck ornaments

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Shilluk man with neck ornaments

Mandari male group portrait

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Mandari male group portrait

Family portrait in Mandari

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Family portrait in Mandari

Sheikh Ismail Osman

Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Portrait of Sheikh Nail Osman in tunic and turban.
Country location: Sudan
Sheikh Ismail Osman

Portrait of a Baka man

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

Beja Hadendoa men with swords

Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Portrait of two Beja Hadendoa men with swords and daggers.
Country location: Sudan
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.
Country location: South Sudan
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.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Zande woman

Portrait of a Mandari youth

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Mandari youth

Shilluk woman holding jar

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Shilluk woman holding jar

Anglo-Egyptian soldier and woman

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?
Country location: South Sudan
Anglo-Egyptian soldier and woman

Mandari family group

Collection: pittriversmuseum.jeanbuxton
Description: A group portrait of a man, woman and three children standing in front of a hut.
Country location: South Sudan
Mandari family group

Mandari doctor of powers

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Mandari doctor of powers

Anglo-Egyptian auxiliaries and women

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Anglo-Egyptian auxiliaries and women

Portrait of an Ingessana man

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of an Ingessana man
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