Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.335 (Film negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
A formal group photograph of Luo men in European clothing outside a large thatched building. Note also four different kinds of western hats (not helmets) worn by some of them. Some are seated on a wooden bench outside the thatch house, which is only partially seen but seems to fit some of the colonial administrative bomas built for administration purposes in rural areas. It could be even a local African administrator's home. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Research Notes
The word jogono in the original documentation is still unfamiliar although close to the word jodongo (old men) but these men seem rather young to be called old men. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.335
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.335"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.335/>.
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