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Nuer elephant butchery

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuer elephant butchery

Portrait of a Shilluk youth

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Portrait of a Shilluk youth

Fur men with a dead lion

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.
Country location: Sudan
Fur men with a dead lion

Nuerland hunting trophies

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuerland hunting trophies

Nile steamer Kereri

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.
Country location: Sudan
Nile steamer Kereri

Jabal Meidob

Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: View of rocky terrain in the Jabal Meidob hills, with a camel walking in the foreground.
Country location: Sudan
Jabal Meidob

Shilluk man with neck ornaments

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Shilluk man with neck ornaments

Camel owned by Thesiger

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.
Country location: South Sudan
Camel owned by Thesiger

Nile landing stage

Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: A landing place on the shore of the White Nile photographed from the Kereri steamer, with people gathered on the bank.
Country location: South Sudan
Nile landing stage

Shilluk girl with pot

Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: A portrait of a girl near a homestead seated on a mat made from bound reeds, with a large pottery vessel in front of her.
Country location: South Sudan
Shilluk girl with pot

Nuba wrestlers

Collection: pittriversmuseum.wilfredpatrickthesiger
Description: View of two men wrestling during a funeral ceremony.
Country location: South Sudan
Nuba wrestlers
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