IDNO

LS.140855.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Kenya - Lumbwa. 58.Lumb.4.
Lumba [sic 'Lumbwa'] (or Sikisi) woman & young girl, wife & daughter of chief medicine man of the Lumbwa, Ar-ap-Koileke. (J.A.I., 1903, pl. 29.)
(c.f. Hollis: "Nandi", pl. 26, p. 64)"

Place

E Africa; Kenya; North Rift; Nandi Country

Cultural Affliation

?Lumbwa; ?Sikisi

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: 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: "Lumbwa woman & young girl." [JD 16/05/2018]

Bibliographical Reference: Hollis, C. (1943). The Masai. Journal of the Royal African Society, 42(168), 119-126. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/717754. [JD 14/09/2018]

Bibliographical Reference: Reviewed Work: 'The Masai, Their Language and Folk-Lore by A. C. Hollis'. Review by: N. W. Thomas, in Folklore, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jun. 24, 1905), pp. 234-238 (5 pages). Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1254008. [JD 14/09/2018]