Idris Daud with buffalo
35 mm | Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Same Image As:
2004.131.71.227
Previous PRM Number:
WT.Sudan etc.2.26
Accession Number:
2004.130.36562.1
Description:
Three Nuer porters with Idris Daud, Thesiger's Zaghawi servant, posed next to a buffalo shot by Thesiger.
Thesiger wrote that he let Idris shoot a buffalo himself once, but this animal is later noted as having been shot by Thesiger himself.
Photographer:
Unknown
Date of Photo:
1938
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Group:
Nuer Zaghawa
NamedPerson:
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
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:
Fauna
Keyword:
Animal Buffalo
Primary Documentation:
Manual Catalogue (Thesiger album card) - 'VOL E p.
27/Buffalo shot by me.' [Elin Bornemann 24/5/2004]
Recorder:
Elin Bornemann [12/12/2003] Christopher Morton [15/9/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
