Nuer porters rafting baggage
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Sudan etc.2.12
Accession Number:
2004.130.36548.1
Description:
Thesiger's porters paddling baggage on a wooden raft, made from the ambatch shrub which grows along the Nile, as they cross a stream or khor.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
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 , Navigation
Keyword:
Rivers and Streams , Boat Raft
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
26/top 2.
crossing creeks with ambach rafts' [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [12/12/2003] Christopher Morton [24/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
