Nuer men hunting hippo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.23
Accession Number:
2004.130.32858.1
Description:
Looking across a lagoon towards a number of Nuer wading with spears raised and some punting on floating beds of vegetation as part of a hippo hunt.
Their hippo quarry can be seen in the centre of the river, making an escape to the left.
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:
Topography , Hunting
Keyword:
Rivers and Streams , Animal Hippopotamus
Activity:
Hunting
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
26/centre R.
harpooning hippo' Note on album page ms pencil - "HARPOONING HIPPO" (on album page above print) [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004] 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]
