Nuer native police
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.265
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.6.31
Accession Number:
2004.130.32944.1
Description:
A portrait of a Nuer native police officer at a dry season cattle camp dance, wearing a metal armbadge bearing the insignia of a shield and crossed spears.
He is carrying harpoons and a short club and has ash smeared on his forehead, arms and legs.
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 , Insignia
Keyword:
Spear , Shield , Ornament Neck
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
32/NUER dancing' (on Thesiger's album card) Note on album page ms pencil - "'NUER' (centre of album page) [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Other Information:
In The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987) Thesiger notes (page 269) that 'tribal police, who were only distinguished from their fellow-tribesmen by a metal badge worn on the left arm, bearing the Provincial arms of a shield and crossed spears.
We...usually kept a few tribal police on the Kereri; but since most chiefs had one or two in their village, we did not take any with us when we were on trek...' Chris Morton [17/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
