Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.224.1

1998.349.224.1 (Film Negative 120mm)

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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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