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Nuer elephant butchery

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: Nuer porters cutting up an elephant shot by Thesiger with their spearheads. Big game hunting formed a significant element of Thesiger's activities in Western Nuerland, and he later acknowledged that it facilitated his acceptance by the Nuer, and provided nutrition for his porters, who called themselves 'Kwechuor's men' after his ox-name.

Portrait of a Shilluk youth

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: A profile portrait of a seated Shilluk youth wearing feather hair ornaments, ear and arm ornaments. The characteristic initiation dots along the youths forehead are visible reaching across to the ear.

Fur men with a dead lion

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: Group portrait of Fur men, standing, several of whom are holding spears, gathered around a dead lion shot by Wilfred Thesiger to spare them from losing further livestock.

Nuerland hunting trophies

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: Thesiger's hunting trophies from his first treks in Western Nuer District, arranged against a wall on the upper deck of the government steamer Kereri. To the right is Thesiger's Zaghawi servant Idris Daud, and to the left is his interpreter Malo.

Nile steamer Kereri

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: View of the Nile paddle-steamer Kereri, which served as the floating headquarters of the District Commissioner of the Western Nuer District.

Jabal Meidob

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: View of rocky terrain in the Jabal Meidob hills, with a camel walking in the foreground.

Shilluk man with neck ornaments

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: A portrait of a youth with huts in the background. He is wearing both head and neck ornaments, including what seem to be two Arab leather charm cases. The distinctive dotted initiation scars across the forehead are also visible.

Camel owned by Thesiger

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Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger

Description: View of a thoroughbred male Bishara camel (named Faraj Allah) owned by Wilfred Thesiger, one of the finest riding camels in Darfur, with a man standing beside it.