Nuer porters with buffalo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.31
Accession Number:
2004.130.32866.1
Description:
Several of Thesiger's Nuer porters standing alongside Idris Daud and Malo with the head of a butchered buffalo, shot by Thesiger.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Western Jikany
NamedPerson:
Idris Daud, Malo
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 Buffalo , Spear
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
27/Buffalo shot by me.' [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [16/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
