IDNO

P.141848.RDG

Description

Documentary photograph of a "Ja-Luo (Kavirondo) cap with hippo tooth ornament. Note, this cap is made of the dewlap of an ox split and stitched over a block."

Place

E Africa; Kenya; Kavirondo

Cultural Affliation

Luo

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William; [Hobley, Charles William, Object collector]

Date

pre 1908

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.141834.RDG - P.141877.RDG were located in a brown envelope, now numbered C987/, and transferred from MAA Paper Archives, W10/2/6, by Jos Dudding, 17/1/2018.

Publication: Ridgeway, William. 'The Origin of the Turkish Crescent.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 38, 1908, pp. 241–258. Plate XXV, Fig. 47. Ja-Luo head-dress, with hippopotamus tooth."
"I also am enabled to show, by the kindness of my friend Mr. C. W. Hobley, C.M.G., Assistant Commissioner, Nairobi, British East Africa, three head-dresses worn by the Ja-Luo of Kavirondo. Fig. 47 shows a cap made of the dewlap of an ox,
split and stretched over a block, and decorated with a hippopotamus tooth. (p.253) [www.jstor.org/stable/2843299, JD 16/08/2018]

'See British Museum Af1947,16.155 'Composite head ornament of leather and wood skull cap with chin straps to which two horns (split lengthways) are tied.' which may be the same object. this may have formed part of Hobley's personal collection which was donated by his daughter after his death, R. Hand 11/02/2025'