Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.146.1 (Film negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
This is a site near the village of Baragulu in Alego Location, Siaya District. It looks like the scene of an abandoned village or gunda, with pots left unbroken and unattended (certainly not a pot firing field). In the early twentieth century such scenes were common in Alego, Ugenya and Yimbo Locations in villages where both dysentery (ndira), cholera and sleeping sickness (nyangona) had killed significant numbers of people, and the few remaining often abandoned their homes. In some cases the pots were planted and left, supposedly to contain the evil spirits which brought such epidemics. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004] Just beyond the pots can be seen a small pool, which may mean that these pots were used for collecting water and left nearby. [CM 29/03/2007]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza Alego Baragulu
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.146.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.146.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.146.1/>.
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