Nuer porters landing hippo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.225
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.1.3
Accession Number:
2004.130.32773.1
Description:
Thesiger's Nuer porters landing a dead hippo.
The man in the foreground is wearing the metal armband of a native policeman.
The native police force was recruited from 1927 to assist with the enforcement of judgements made at local chief's courts, which were also augmented at this time, a policy forcefully pushed through by C.
A.
Willis who became governor of Upper Nile Province in 1926.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer ?Western Jikany
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 , Hunting
Keyword:
Rivers and Streams , Animal Hippopotamus
Activity:
Hunting
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger Album card) - 'VOL E p.
26/bottom R.
landing dead hippo' Elin Bornemann [24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] [Christopher Morton 15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
