Nuer dancing
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.259
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.6.26
Accession Number:
2004.130.32940.1
Description:
Youths carrying spears and ambatch shields dance together in the foreground, one wearing thiau armrings on his left arm, another on the right, with numerous other youths gathered to dance nearby next to a windbreak near a cattle byre (luak) at a cattle camp.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1939
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:
Weapon , Dance , Ornament
Keyword:
Spear , Shield , Ornament Arm
Activity:
Dancing
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
32/NUER dancing' Note on album page ms pencil - "NUER" (centre of album page) [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
