Nuer porters
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.208
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.12.25
Accession Number:
2004.130.36127.1
Description:
A full length portrait of two Nuer porters in Western Nuer District, with baggage visible to the left.
On his first four month trek in Western Nuerland Thesiger employed about thirty porters at a shilling a day, who each carried about forty pounds in weight.
Thesiger conceded that many of the porters were necessary simply to carry food for the others.
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
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
25/NUER PORTERS' [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [11/12/2003] Christopher Morton [22/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
