Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.257.1

1998.349.257.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A man wearing a headdress consisting of a plume of animal tail hair or feathers (or even vegetable fibre) tied on a short stick above a cowry shell hat (ogut gagi) and a long white robe (kandho or kanzu). In front of him is a large pot, described by Evans-Pritchard as the 'Great Pot' of [?] Karaunango, which may be a misspelling of a Luo place name. Whilst the significance of this pot is still obscure, such big narrow-necked pots (dak) are used as a container for liquids and as such could be water pot (dag pi) or local beer pot (dag kong'o). [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza ?Karaunango

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.257.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.257.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.257.1/>.

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