Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.224.1 (Film Negative 120mm)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
A youth playing a skin drum with others watching. He seems to be playing the drum in connection with the Luo funeral ceremony of driving away death (tero buru). [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza ?Kanyaura
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Research Notes
These is the same group as in 1998.349.55 & .204, but here described as at some place called Kanyaura (which may be a misspelt name of a certain village). [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.224.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
Activity
Performing
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.224.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.224.1/>.
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