Nuer porters and cattle camp

Nuer porters and cattle camp
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.2.10


Accession Number:
2004.130.32811.1
Description:
Looking back towards a line of porters walking past a cattle camp, with people looking towards the trekking party. The small domed sleeping huts are characteristic features of a dry season cattle camp, probably sited near to permanent water, encountered by Thesiger during his four month march in Western Nuerland in the dry season of 1938.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer ?Western Jikany
PRM Source:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Acquired:
Accepted as Art in Lieu of Inheritance Tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Pitt Rivers Museum, March 2004
Other Owners:
n/a
Class:
Topography , Settlement
Keyword:
Landscape , Cattle Camp
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council
Help | About | Bibliography