Nuer hippo hunt
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.10
Accession Number:
2004.130.32845.1
Description:
Looking across a lagoon towards a number hippo with several Nuer punting towards them on a floating raft of vegetation.
Another group doing the same thing from beyond can just be made out.
Thesiger wrote that the Nuer prized hippopotamus meat for its fat content, and he occasionally shot a hippo to provide his porters with a treat.
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 , Fauna , Hunting
Keyword:
Rivers and Streams , Animal Hippopotamus
Activity:
Hunting
Other Information:
Thesiger writes in detail about this hippo hunt in The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987), pages 273-4.
Chris Morton [16/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [16/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
