photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.81.1

1998.349.81.1 (Film negative)

Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A portrait of a Luo woman (possibly identified as Lenya) from Gangu village, wearing a beadwork headdress (ligisa). The ligisa headdress is open at the top, made of vegetable fibre and sticks, and decorated with glass beads (tigo). She is also smoking tobacco using a long stem (ondhuru) connected to a clay pipebowl (kwesi). Her forehead is also decorated with scarification spots (ngo'l) in horizontal parallel lines (see also 1998.349.113). Behind her is a plantation of a type of sorghum (bel) showing their grain heads and probably ready for harvesting. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza Lenya Gangu

Named Person

?Lenya

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.81.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.81.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.81.1/>.