Nuer porters on march
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.2.2
Accession Number:
2004.130.32803.1
Description:
Several of Thesiger's Nuer porters standing next to what may be a termite mound, with Thesiger's Nuer youth acting as syce holding his horse to the right.
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
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:
Animal Husbandry
Keyword:
Animal Horse
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
