Nuer porters
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.10.5
Accession Number:
2004.130.36050.1
Description:
Several of Thesiger's Nuer porters leaning on spears near to baggage in a camp.
One is wearing a single bird plume hair decoration and ivory arm ornament.
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:
Settlement , Ornament
Keyword:
Camp , Ornament Hair
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [21/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
