Nuer porters dividing meat
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.267
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.9.9
Accession Number:
2004.130.36028.1
Description:
Thesiger's Nuer porters sitting around a pile of game shot by Thesiger.
Bending down is Idris Daud, Thesiger's Zaghawi servant, evidently giving out portions of the meat to the porters to cook.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
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:
Food and Drink
Keyword:
Meat
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
32/bottom R.
dividing up meat among the porters' Note on album page ms pencil - "NUER PORTERS" (on album page below print) [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [21/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
