Nuer cattle crossing river
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.271
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Sudan etc.2.13
Accession Number:
2004.130.36549.1
Description:
Cattle being swum across the Nile somewhere below Lake No.
Men in two dug-out canoes guide them across.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
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:
Topography , Animal Husbandry , Navigation
Keyword:
Rivers & Streams , Animal Cattle , Boat Dug-out
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
33/Swimming cattle across the Nile below Lake No.' Note on album page ms pencil - "CATTLE CROSSING THE NILE" (on album page below print) [Elin Bornemann 25/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [12/12/2003] Christopher Morton [24/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
