IDNO

LS.140856.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Kenya - Masai (N.H.) 58. Mas. 1. XLV111. B.F.A. 47. A.F. VII. 45.
"Masai stock".
[male symbol] sitting. Gwasangishu warrior (Moran)
(J.A.I. /03. PL. XXVIII.) (Nandi = Murenet).
"Note lion mane headdress."

Place

E Africa; Kenya; North Rift; Nandi Country

Cultural Affliation

Maasai [historically Masai]; Gwasangishu

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: Portrait of same 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.28. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2842815, and captioned: "Gwasangishu warrior (Moran) ." [JD 16/05/2018]