Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.47.1 (Film negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
Portrait of two men in European dress, identified as John (right) and Absalom (left). The description of the area in the original notes is Lake Kanyaboli which is a village in Alego Location. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza Alego Lake Kanyaboli
Named Person
John, Absalom
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Research Notes
John is certainly the man to the right as he does not appear in 1998.349.28 - 29. That leaves the man on the left to be Absalom. This also reveals the man on the left in 1998.349.28 and on the right in 1998.349.29 to be Josiah. The same same homestead behind them seems to be that appearing in 1998.349.18 and 1998.349.31. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004] Absalom is identified in 1998.349.173, .195 & .229 as 'Absalom'; in 1998.349.168 as 'Absala'; in 1998.349.29 as 'Abraham' and 1998.349.47 as 'Abrahim'. Although this is slightly confusing, we have decided to identify him as Absalom throughout for consistency. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004 & CM 04/04/2007]
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.47.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.47.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.47.1/>.
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