Nuer cattle camp
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.2
Accession Number:
2004.130.32838.1
Description:
A Nuer cattle camp, with small roughly made grass sleeping huts and cattle visible.
This camp, made by youths who move with the cattle to better water sites during the dry season, was probably encountered by Thesiger during his first trek in Western Nuerland in January 1938.
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:
Settlement
Keyword:
Cattle Camp
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [16/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
