Thesiger with shot buffalo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Sudan etc.2.27
Accession Number:
2004.130.36563.1
Description:
Four Nuer porters with Thesiger posed sitting on a buffalo he shot.
This image seems to have been taken by Idris Daud, Thesiger's Zaghawi servant.
Photographer:
Idris Daud
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer European English
NamedPerson:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
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:
Fauna
Keyword:
Animal Buffalo
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
27/Buffalo shot by me.' [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [12/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
