IDNO

LS.140827.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Kenya - Bantu Kavirondo. 58.BK.7. XLV111. B.F.A. 34. A.F. VII. 87.
Group of [female symbol] + hoes over their shoulders. Ketosh. N. Bantu. 2 + scarified abdomens. (J.A.I. XXXIII. /03. Pl. XXIX.)
1 + plug in lip.
'Group of married [2x female symbols] returning from the fields'."

Place

E Africa; Kenya

Cultural Affliation

Ketosh

Named Person

Photographer

Hobley, Charles William

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1894 - 1903

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Similar 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, pl.29. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2842815, and captioned: "Ketosh Woman (N. Bantu)." [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]