IDNO

P.6952.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Group of young men. Karamojong
Koromoyo.

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.140605.TC1: Karamojong. XLVIII .Bea.60 JAI III.72. 54.Ka.19.B.
"Group of Koromojo Women young men." (J.A.I./03 PL. XXX)

Place

E Africa; Kenya; North Rift; Nandi Country

Cultural Affliation

Koromoyo

Named Person

Photographer

Hobley, Charles William

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre 1903

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in 'Hobley, C. W. “British East Africa: Anthropological Studies in Kavirondo and Nandi.” The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 33, 1903, pp. 325–359. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2842815, and captioned: "Koromojo Warriors." [JD 16/05/2018]

Biographical Information: Charles William Hobley, C.M.G. (1867-1947) was a pioneering British Colonial administrator in Kenya. He served the Foreign Service in Kenya from 1894 until his retirement in 1921 and published a number of monographs on a variety of subjects. In 1906 Hobley became sub-commissioner of Ukamba Province, stationed in Nairobi. [Source: A Bio-Bibliography of C.W. Hobley, by A. T. Matson; Thomas P. Ofcansky, History in Africa © 1981 African Studies Association, JSTOR Online, JD 20/6/2007]