Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.51.1 (Film negative)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
A hut in a Luo homestead with baskets to one side, described as the 'medicine hut of huts' belonging to Chief Ezekiel Onyango of Kadimo in Yimbo Location. The building is of excellent construction and is a traditional Luo hut with a well-made thatch and strapped with strings to prevent the thatch being blown away by the wind. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza Yimbo Kadimo
Named Person
Ezekiel Onyango
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Research Notes
This is probably the same homestead with two granaries where the photo described as 'chief's children at Kadimo' was taken (1998.349.49). [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.51.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.51.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.51.1/>.
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