photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.57.1

1998.349.57.1 (Film negative)

Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

Man playing an eight-stringed musical instrument (nyatiti). He is wearing a feather headdress (kondo udo, ostrich feathers) stuck on a plaited mat hat and has a wrap of stringed metal jingles (gara) on his right leg. He is seated in front of a grass thatch house with some banana plants and a thick homestead tree fence in the background. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.57.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

Activity

Dancing

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.57.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.57.1/>.