Thesiger with lion kill
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.2.30
Accession Number:
2004.130.32831.1
Description:
A portrait of Thesiger sitting on a lion shot by him in Western Nuerland, one of forty lions he shot in southern Sudan.
He later wrote that lions were then considered vermin in the region, and were especially abundant in the Western District.
He probably handed his camera to Idris Daud, he Zaghawi servant, to take this image, or perhaps Malo his interpreter, who both accompanied him on regular hunting expeditions.
Photographer:
Idris Daud ?; Malo ?
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer
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 , Weapon , Hunting
Keyword:
Animal Lion , Firearm
Other Information:
[from similar image] Manual Catalogue - 'VOL E p.
34/LION shot by me in the Western Nuer District/bottom R.
self.' [Elin Bornemann 25/5/2004] In The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987) Thesiger notes (page 273) that 'I know that today it sounds unforgiveable to have shot seventy lion in five years, but that was fifty years ago and circumstances of that time cannot be judged by those of today.
Lion were then rated as vermin in the Sudan, and were especially abundant in Western Nuer District.' Chris Morton [16/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [16/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
