Nuer man in papyrus
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.232
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.16
Accession Number:
2004.130.32851.1
Description:
A portrait of a Nuer youth wearing thiau armrings on his right arm standing with his spear among papyrus plants on the bank of a lagoon.
The context of the image is a hippo hunt that men and youths were involved with on the Nile.
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:
Weapon , Vegetation
Keyword:
Spear , Plant , Animal Hippopotamus
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
27/Nuer in papyrus' [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [16/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
