photograph scan of PRM number 1998.209.44.7

1998.209.44.7 (Print black & white)

Key Information

Photographer

Charles William Hobley

Description

This group is a mixture of married Luo women, young girls and children, posed in a line standing and seated, at Karungu in south Nyanza. Here the use of skin or fibre aprons (olemo), armlets (minyonge) and bead necklaces (tik ng'ut) is very evident, and in fact some girls and women have adopted a whole waist skin wrap. [Gilbert Oteyo 06/05/05 & CM 27/04/2007]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza Karungu

Pitt Rivers Source

Charles William Hobley

Primary Documentation

Notes on PRM card - 'Group at Karinga Sta.[station]'

Research Notes

The original annotation describes this group as located at 'Karinga' Station, a place not found in Nyanza. However, the background is the same as that in 1998.209.43.8 where the location has been identified as Karungu in South Nyanza. Oteyo and I suggest that 'Karinga' is actually a misreading of an earlier note, perhaps on the print reverse, as indeed 'Karmiya' probably is. [CM 24/04/2007].

Date of Photograph

1902

Accession number

1998.209.44.7

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Date Acquired

Donated

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.209.44.7" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.209.44.7/>.