Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.87.1

1998.349.87.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

A Luo homestead (dala) at Ng'iya village. The homestead is fenced with euphorbia trees and the entrance is behind the grass thatch hut on the left, and this hut may be for the son of the home owner. There are calves in the cattle pen (kul) in the centre of the homestead, which were often unfenced as this one is and instead using short pegs (loch or loye (plural)) to tether them. In between them and looking back at the camera is a youth. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza Ng'iya

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.87.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.87.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.87.1/>.

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