Nile scene from steamer
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.5.20
Accession Number:
2004.130.32909.1
Description:
A view across a river, almost certainly the Nile, from the top deck of the Kereri, with the two deck barge lashed alongside.
The Kereri was the mobile district headquarters for colonial officials in Western Nuerland District.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
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:
Navigation , Topography
Keyword:
Boat Ship , Rivers and Streams
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
33/R 3.
The Kereri' [Elin Bornemann 25/5/2004] In The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987) Thesiger notes (page 259) that the Kereri was 'the paddle-steamer that served as the mobile Headquarters of the Western Nuer district...Lashed alongside the Kereri was a large, roofed, double-decked barge, at present empty.
Once back in the district it was soon packed...A smaller medical barge was pushed along ahead of the Kereri: on it a Sudanese dresser and our clerk had their quarters.' Chris Morton [15/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
