IDNO

P.6971.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Man showing hairdressing.
Kikuyu." [typed text, circa 1935]

Portrait of an Agikuyu man with a distinctive hair style and wearing a large ear disc, a fish vertebrae necklace, metal? neck, arm and wrist ornaments, and a cloth tied at the right shoulder. [JD 04/03/2021]

Place

E Africa; Kenya; Central Province

Cultural Affliation

Agikuyu [historically Gikuyu; Kikuyu]

Named Person

Photographer

Missioni Torinesi Consolata in Africa

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information