Nuer men hunting hippo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.24
Accession Number:
2004.130.32859.1
Description:
Looking across a lagoon towards a number of Nuer wading with spears and harpoons raised as part of a hippo hunt.
Their hippo quarry can be seen 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
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 , Weapon
Keyword:
Rivers and Streams , Spear , Harpoon , Animal Hippopotamus
Activity:
Hunting
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]
