Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.131.1 (Film Negative 120mm)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
A full length group portrait of three important men of Uyoma village. The man to the right is elsewhere identified as Ocieng. His hat is probably made of fur and has two warthog teeth (leke njiri or leke mbeche) stuck on it, hanging down in front of his forehead. He is clad in a leopard skin (lpien kwach) and has a pair of skin sandals on his feet. The man in the middle has a hat made of some animal fur and onto it is stuck warthog horns (lak mbeche) protruding outwards. Another of these teeth is hanging from his neck. He has a walking stick (luth, bol or odunga) on which he supports himself and he is adorned in a long robe (which may be kanzu or joho) The man to the left has the same type of walking stick with an animal fur headdress. He is wearing a white kanzu but with a coat on top, a typical East African coastal dressing. Such clothes were sold in Kisumu shops to wealthy elder men. Evans-Pritchard's original note describes them rightly as the 'Uyoma elite' (that is, of Uyoma village or clan). [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004 & CM 29/03/2007]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza Alego Uyoma
Named Person
Ochieng
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Research Notes
The man on the right appears in 1998.349.63 and 69. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.131.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.131.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.131.1/>.
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