Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.140.1

1998.349.140.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A typical Luo homestead with cattle (dhok) tethered on the pegs (loch) in the kraal (kul) which usually situated at the center of the homestead. Cattle dung (owuoyo) is seen all over the kraal and an old man's three-legged stool (kom nyaluo) is seen in the middle. The homestead is fenced with euphorbia trees (ojuok) and grass thatched huts (udi) and grain storage granaries (dere) are lined around the kraal. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza Alego Ng'iya

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.140.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.140.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.140.1/>.

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