Wedderburn with Nile Perch
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.10a.13
Accession Number:
2004.130.36084.1
Description:
H.G.
Wedderburn-Maxwell, the District Commissioner, with Nuer porters and two Nile perch caught by him.
In the background is the Kereri, the steamer used as the floating headquarters for the administration.
Thesiger later wrote that although Wedderburn was 'no great conversationalist, he was enthusiastic on the subject of fishing...'
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938 - 1939
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer European English
NamedPerson:
H. G. Wedderburn-Maxwell
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:
Fishing , Colonial , Navigation
Keyword:
Fish , Boat
Other Information:
In The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987) Thesiger notes (page 261) that 'Wedderburn, as he was always called, had a frank, open face with wide-set eyes, and impressed me at once as friendly and utterly reliable.
While we talked, he puffed at his pipe; during my two years with him he always seemed to be lighting it or smoking it.
He had now acheived his ambition by being posted to the Western Nuer, and hoped to spend the rest of his service among them.' Chris Morton [21/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [21/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
