Nuer men watching hippo hunt
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.249
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.15
Accession Number:
2004.130.32850.1
Description:
A group of Nuer youths with harpoons and spears among papyrus on the bank of a lagoon watching anxiously the progress of a hippo hunt taking place in the river.
Thesiger wrote that the Nuer prized hippopotamus meat for its fat content, and he occasionally shot a hippo to provide his porters with a treat.
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:
Weapon , Vegetation , Hunting
Keyword:
Harpoon , Plant , Animal Hippopotamus
Activity:
Hunting
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogues - 'VOL E p.
30/Nuer in papyrus' (on Thesiger's album card) Elin Bornemann, 24/5/2004
Other Information:
Thesiger writes in detail about this hippo hunt in The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987), pages 273-4.
Chris Morton [16/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [16/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
