Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.21.1 (Film negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
Group of men (named in the original notes as Jacobs, Odunde, Ourio, Gura and Olo). The man to the left, Jacob Odawo, is the same man seen holding the spear of Alego with Archdeacon Walter Owen in another image. A close inspection of his jacket here shows the words 'Native Assessor' embroidered across the front of his jacket. Native Assessors were locals employed to assist colonial magistrates in trials of Africans. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004 & CM 28/03/2007]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza Alego
Named Person
Jacob [Jakobs] Odawo, Odunde, Ourio, Gura, Olo
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Research Notes
The annotation Jakoko here may be Jacobs or Jakobo as the Luo would pronounce the name. In that case the man at the far left hand would therefore be Jakobo. Gilbert Oteyo visited the surviving wives and relatives of Jacob Odawo during research in March 2007. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004 & CM 16/04/2007]
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.21.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.21.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.21.1/>.
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