
3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 22cm
Description
A group of Nuer men on the banks of a lagoon watching anxiously the progress of a hippo hunt. Thesiger wrote that the Nuer prized hippopotamus meat for its fat content, and he occasionally shot a hippo to provide his porters with a treat.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Image Details
Accession Number
2004.130.32842.1
Format
Film negative
Country
Sudan
Region
[Southern Sudan] Wahda
Cultural Group
Nuer Western Jikany
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
1938
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