Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.244.1

1998.349.244.1 (Film Negative 120mm)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A portrait of a Luo woman (identified as Mudiana) with razor-cut skin decoration (ngol) on the face and arms, standing beside the car used to transport Evans-Pritchard on his tour around Luo country. These marks were purely for decoration. She is also wearing a bead necklace (tik ng'ut) and a finger ring (tere). The over-wrap clothing here was popular with Luo women unlike men who did not favour it. Such over-wrap in men is usually found with the highland Bantu and Kalenjin. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza Alego Unyolo

Named Person

Mudiana

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.244.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.244.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.244.1/>.

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