IDNO

P.143764.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.6971.ACH1: "Man showing hairdressing.
Kikuyu." [typed text, circa 1935]

Portrait of an Agikuyu man with a distinctive hair style and wearing a large ear disc, a fish vertebrae necklace, metal? neck, arm and wrist ornaments, and a cloth tied at the right shoulder. [JD 04/03/2021]

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

Haddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.143747.ACH2 - P.143766.ACH2 were found unaccessioned in Drawer A.30, and are probably prints collected as part of the preparation of the Haddon Mounted Collection. The Kodak envelope has been numbered as C861/.