Nuer porters
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.10.6
Accession Number:
2004.130.36051.1
Description:
Several of Thesiger's Nuer porters holding on spears and ambatch shields.
The centre man is wearing a single bird plume hair decoration, the one to the left thiau armrings on his right arm.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938 - 1939
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
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:
Ornament , Weapon
Keyword:
Ornament Arm , Ornament Hair , Spear , Shield
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [21/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
