IDNO

P.51266.

Description

"Akikuyu Types- An Officer and Private”

Place

E Africa; Kenya; Central Province [British East Africa]

Cultural Affliation

Agikuyu [historically Gikuyu; Kikuyu]

Named Person

Photographer

Missioni Torinesi Consolata in Africa

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Source

Format

Postcard

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.51241 to P.51271 were in envelope now numbered C223/ which was kept in wooden drawer I.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Africa; British East Africa; Africa; East Africa; ?Kenya”, but the print is annotated as ‘Kikuyu’, a cultural group of Kenya. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 23/10/2009]

Group: Kikuyu is an alternative name for the group Gikuyu, which live in the west Central Province of Kenya. [Source: Ethnologue Online 15th Edition, JD 19/6/2007]