Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.204.1

1998.349.204.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A Luo man posed with spear and shield at the ready, a participant in the Luo funeral ceremony of driving away death known as tero buru (or simply buru). This man is in full Luo tero buru gear and would be performing all sorts of acrobatic actions to drive death away. He has a special bladed spear (tong' dindo) and a cow hide shield (okumba). His head is adorned with shrubs (bombwe) and an array of warthog or wild pig tusks (leke mbeche). His face is painted with white and black lines of earth and ash. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.204.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

Activity

Dancing

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.204.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.204.1/>.

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