Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.62.1

1998.349.62.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

This carved wooden post in a cleared area of thick vegetation may be a marker to a great clan or family leader or marking a ceremonial spot remembering some event. The meaning of Evans-Pritchard's original note of 'murko' or 'muko' is obscure. The post is tied with some vegetation in one place, and at the base an iron spear head seems to have been thrust into the ground. This post is also seen in another photograph near to another carved post with an elder identified as Owoi or Owor. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004 & CM 12/03/2007]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Research Notes

Notched posts of this type are also made by southern Sudanese groups such as Mandari and Bongo. See for instance 1998.97.268 for a Mandari example. This particular post is seen to the right in 1998.349.227 [CM 12/03/2007]

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.62.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

Activity

Dancing

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.62.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.62.1/>.

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