Nuer women and steamer
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.8.23
Accession Number:
2004.130.32998.1
Description:
A group of Nuer women lined up with the government steamer Kereri in the background.
The Kereri was the mobile district headquarters for colonial officials in Western Nuerland.
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:
Navigation , Physical Anthropology
Keyword:
Boat Ship
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
21 WESTERN NUER 1937-39/bottom R.
waiting to load wood on the "KERERI" [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
