Nuer porter
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.272
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.12.31
Accession Number:
2004.130.36133.1
Description:
A portrait of a Nuer porter during a trek in Western Nuer District.
On his first four month trek in Western Nuerland Thesiger employed about thirty porters at a shilling a day, who each carried about forty pounds in weight.
Thesiger conceded that many of the porters were necessary simply to carry food for the others.
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:
Weapon
Keyword:
Spear
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
21 WESTERN NUER 1937-39' Note on album page ms pencil - "THE WESTERN NUER" (centre of album page) [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [22/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
