A portrait of a Nuer porter during a trek in Western Nuer District. 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.

Collection type: Photograph
Description: A portrait of a Nuer porter during a trek in Western Nuer District. 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.
Geographical reference: South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan; Unity State
Cultural groups: Nuer
Person: Photographer Wilfred Patrick Thesiger; PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period: Date of photograph: 1938 - 1939
Acquisition information: Acceptance in Lieu: 03/2004
Photographic process: Negative film Kodak Panatonic
Dimensions: Image dimension 35 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2004.130.36133.1 Previous PRM number: WT.Southern Sudan.12.31

Search terms: Weapon, Portrait

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