Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.37.1

1998.349.37.1 (Film Negative 120mm)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

Woman (or older adolescent girl) with scarification marks (ng'ol) on the forehead - two horizontal lines of razor-cut spots. The woman is smoking probably tobacco using a clay smoking pipe. There is a fenced homestead (dala) behind her. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Research Notes

Probably the same homestead as in 1998.349.18, 1998.349.30 - 31 and 34. Similar facial decoration is in 1998.349.113.[Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.37.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.37.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.37.1/>.

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