Nuer porters
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.9.13
Accession Number:
2004.130.36032.1
Description:
A portrait of three of Thesiger's Nuer porters with ash-covered hair, holding spears.
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:
Toilet
Keyword:
Hair
Other Information:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) entry for similar image - 'VOL E p.
34/LION shot by me in the Western Nuer District/L.
3 of my porters' [Elin Bornemann 25/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [21/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
