Captured Nuba poachers
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.268
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.9.14
Accession Number:
2004.130.36033.1
Description:
Two captured poachers wearing arab-style tunics.
Thesiger was sent to intercept a group of seventeen poachers just noth of the Bahr el Arab in April 1939.
These Nuba poachers were from Jebel el Liri in Southern Kordofan.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuba
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:
[Hunting]
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
32/top R.
two captured ELIRI poachers' Note on album page ms pencil - "ELIRI POACHERS" (on album page next to print) [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [21/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
