Boarding a Nile steamer

Boarding a Nile steamer
59 x 55 mm | Negative film nitrate
There are records relating to alternative images that we do not have scans for in the database:
2005.51.26.2 - Print gelatin silver , (57 x 55 mm)
Date of Print:
Unknown


Accession Number:
2005.51.26
Description:
People boarding a river boat along a plank, including men in Arab dress and a European. In the foreground is a Shilluk man with sculpted hair and scarification on the forehead holding a sack, and a Shilluk woman with a tin of food. The location is unknown, but possibly Malakal.
Photographer:
Godfrey Lienhardt
Date of Photo:
1947 - 1951
Region:
[Southern Sudan]
PRM Source:
Estate of Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt, via Ahmed al-Shahi (literary executor)
Acquired:
Donated 2005
Other Owners:
Godfrey Lienhardt Collection
Class:
Transport , Food and Drink , Body Art
Keyword:
Body Art Skin
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 21/7/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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