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Nuer scarification marks

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuer scarification marks

Portrait of a Mandari man

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Mandari man

Anuak hair dressing

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man (identified as Ojo) having his hair dressed by another who is crouching behind him. Spears are stuck in the ground beside them and an antelope skin is stretched out behind.
Country location: South Sudan
Anuak hair dressing

Bracelet fighting

Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Male wrestlers (bracelet fighting), at a gathering at Talodi.
Country location: Sudan
Bracelet fighting

Zande magic whistle

Collection: pittriversmuseum.edwardevanevanspritchard
Description: A man (identified as Kamanga, one of Evans-Pritchard's servants) posed blowing a magic whistle (kura). Such whistles are mostly worn about the body and are used for a variety of purposes, such as to ward off witchcraft. They are made from plants and horns with magical associations, such as zerengbondo, a type of creeper.
Country location: South Sudan
Zande magic whistle

Father Christmas

Collection: pittriversmuseum.percycoriat
Description: Man (identified as George Bredin) dressed as Father Christmas.
Country location: Sudan
Father Christmas

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

Portrait of a Zande witchdoctor

Collection: pittriversmuseum.richardbutcha
Description: A full length portrait of a Zande binza or witchdoctor standing beside a hut, wearing rattles, skins, medicines and other attire of the corporation.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Zande witchdoctor

Nuba wrestlers

Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: View of two men wrestling during a funeral ceremony.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuba wrestlers
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