Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.246.1

1998.349.246.1 (Film Negative 120mm)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A view of a shrine to the spirit mumbo in the middle ground, consisting of a notched post with ritual attachments, and long slender poles also erected beside it. There were so many people in Luo country possessed by these spirits in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that mumbo became a cult and the followers known as jo mumbo. Ritual sites of huts and other objects were constructed for the spirit mumbo and even the hut or homestead of a ja mumbo himself became a shrine. For example, the cult leader Obondo Mumbo had the whole of his large homestead as a mumbo ritual site. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.246.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.246.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.246.1/>.

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