Western Nuerland steamer
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.2.23
Accession Number:
2004.130.32824.1
Description:
The paddle-steamer Kereri at a landing stage on the Nile in Western Jikany country where Thesiger was presented with both a name-bull as well as a number of porters for a four month trek.
The men gathered near the boat may be those being recruited as porters.
The Kereri was the mobile district headquarters for colonial officials in Western Nuerland.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938 (January?)
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
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:
Navigation , Colonial
Keyword:
Boat Ship
Other Information:
In The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987) Thesiger notes (page 259) that the Kereri was 'the paddle-steamer that served as the mobile Headquarters of the Western Nuer district...Lashed alongside the Kereri was a large, roofed, double-decked barge, at present empty.
Once back in the district it was soon packed...A smaller medical barge was pushed along ahead of the Kereri: on it a Sudanese dresser and our clerk had their quarters.' Chris Morton [15/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
