Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.203.1

1998.349.203.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A slightly distant view of people driving cattle as part of the Luo funerary ritual tero buru, performed after burial. The herding of cattle symbolizes the driving away of death from the home of the deceased. To the left can be seen men with shields and spears, one in the centre with a painted face, and behind him and to the right more warriors and the herd of driven cattle. [CM 10/04/2007]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.203.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.203.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.203.1/>.

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