Nuer or Dinka porters
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.5.22
Accession Number:
2004.130.32911.1
Description:
A group of Nuer or possibly Dinka porters, one wearing thiau armrings on his right arm.
The context of the image may be that these porters are Dinka of Southern Kordofan who Thesiger met on his way to Kutum and Tibesti in July 1938.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] ?Wahda ?Southern Kordofan
Group:
?Nuer ?Dinka
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:
Physical Anthropology , Ornament
Keyword:
Ornament Arm
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
