Nuerland Lagoon with hippo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Southern Sudan.3.3
Accession Number:
2004.130.32839.1
Description:
Looking a lagoon towards a number of hippo in the distance.
Thesiger later wrote that he followed a group of Nuer to a lagoon hunt where some thirty-five hippo had been spotted.
To the left can be seen several Nuer on a hastily made reed raft, punting themselves across the river with a pole.
Photographer:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date of Photo:
1938
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:
Topography , Fauna
Keyword:
Rivers and Streams , Animal Hippopotamus
Other Information:
Thesiger writes in detail about this hippo hunt in The Life of My Choice (Harper Collins 1987), pages 273-4.
Chris Morton [16/9/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [10/12/2003] Christopher Morton [16/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
