Western Nuerland landing stage

Western Nuerland landing stage
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.193
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.8.21


Accession Number:
2004.130.32996.1
Description:
Looking down from the upper deck of the Kereri at a landing place on the White Nile with a few thatched round huts and a square building with a merchant's store of corrugated iron roof. To the left is a small inlet with dugout canoes.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938 - 1939
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer
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 , Shelter , Navigation , Trade
Keyword:
Rivers and Streams , Building Storage , Boat Dug-out
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p. 22/L bottom. A landing place and merchants store' Note on album page ms pencil - "A LANDING STAGE" (on album page below print) [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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