IDNO

P.49911.DRI

Description

"Nandi warrior with spear & club, wearing the ringlets of his status - a form of ceremonial coiffure adopted from the Gala." [Driberg's caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate lanternslide LS.140844.TC1: "Kenya - Nandi. 58.N.4.
Africa, East.
Nandi warrior with spear and club, wearing the ringlets of his status, a form of ceremonial coiffure adopted from the Boran Gala."

A portrait of a young Nandi man with his hair and ears adorned with local ornaments. He wears multiple neck ornaments, a circular cuff closer to his neck and a looser necklace as well as a cuff on his wrist. He is holding a spear in his left hand and a club in his right hand, he is wearing a loose garment on his chest and shoulder. Driberg annotates that his ringlets indicate his status, a ceremonial coiffure. [LS 26/07/23]

Place

E Africa; Kenya; ?Nandi Hills [Galla-land]

Cultural Affliation

Nandi; Boran Gala

Named Person

Photographer

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Date

1926

Collection Name

Driberg CollectionUnmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.49910.ACH2. to P.49936.ACH2. were found in envelope now marked C210/4/. This was found in another envelope now marked C210/ which came from the wooden drawer 1.

Cultural Group: The Nandi are a cultural group, with the language being a dialect of Kalenjin, and a place of Kenya. Dorobo is an alternative name for Okiek, a cultural group of Kenya. ‘Ndorobo’ is a now deemed a derogatory cover term for several small hunter or forest groups of Kenya, not linguistically related (El Molo, Yaaku, Okiek, Omotik, Aasax). [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 18/6/2009]

Photographer: The handwriting on the reverse of the prints P.49897.ACH2. to P.49909.ACH2. is the same as the series P.49848.ACH2. to P.49875.ACH2, which has been provisionally assigned to J.H.Driberg, and the dates circa 1912 - 1921. The Photographer and Date fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 19/6/2009]