Nuer homestead
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.197
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.8.12
Accession Number:
2004.130.32992.1
Description:
A Nuer homestead in Western Nuerland, with larger cattle byres (luak) and smaller sleeping huts.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938 - 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:
Shelter , Settlement
Keyword:
Building House , Building Animals
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
23/My porters./Nuer "LUAK" (cattle house).' [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]