Nuer porters with hippo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.1.5
Accession Number:
2004.130.32775.1
Description:
Nuer porters standing in an arc around a dead hippo presumably shot by Thesiger himself.
One of the men is wearing an Arabic tunic, and may well be Idris Daud, Thesiger's servant from Darfur who joined him in 1935.
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:
Fauna , Hunting
Keyword:
Animal Hippopotamus
Activity:
Hunting
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] [Christopher Morton 15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
