IDNO

P.49920.ACH2

Description

"Luo elder, wearing multiple hippo-teeth head-dress." [Driberg's caption]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.140793.TC1: Kenya - Luo. 57.L.20, 21.
Africa, East.
Luo elder wearing multiple hippo teeth head-dress.
- 2 Luo elders, showing old headdress, cowries & hippo teeth.

Place

E Africa; Kenya; ?Nyanza Province

Cultural Affliation

Luo

Named Person

Photographer

Driberg, Jack Herbert

Collector / Expedition

Date

1926

Collection Name

Unmounted 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.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Africa", but Luo are a cultural group of Nyanza Province, Kenya. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [Source: Ethnologue 15th Edition, JD 18/6/2009]

Photographer: The handwriting on the reverse of the prints P.49910.ACH2. to P.49936.ACH2 is the same as the series P.50014.ACH2. to P.50110.ACH2, which has been provisionally assigned to H.J. Shepstone, and the dates circa 1923 - 1932. (Prints P.50018.ACH2, P.50070.ACH2, and P.50091.ACH2 are signed on the reverse with "H.J. Shepstone".) The Photographer and Date fields have been amended accordingly. [JD 19/6/2009]