Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.69.1

1998.349.69.1 (Film Negative 120mm)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A full length portrait of a Luo man identified as Ocieng, dressed in the manner of an elder attending a funeral ceremony. His hat is probably made of fur and has two warthog teeth (leke njiri or leke mbeche) stuck on it, hanging down in front of his forehead. He is clad in a leopard skin (lpien kwach) and has a pair of skin sandals on his feet. He wears a number of metal wrist rings (minyonge) on both hands. Although he seems dressed for a funeral ceremony, the strip of animal skin worn hanging from his neck does mean some sort of animal has been slaughtered for this man in a cleansing ceremony. This means that he could be a warrior or a man possessed by spirits. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza

Named Person

Ocieng

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.69.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.69.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.69.1/>.

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