photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A43.129
- Description
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Kenya, medium group of Maragoli adult males dancing in a circle at a "funeral dance". Males wearing leg-rattles, American clothing, feathers [?] in hair. Crowd in background. Rural setting.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1880-1938 (Earlier date uncertain.)
- Dimensions
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Length: 18 centimetres
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Width: 13.05 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Main themes of album: Kenya - portraits of Luyia men and women; their buildings and activities including construction, agriculture, trapping, food-preparation, metalworking, pottery-making and market scenes; initiation and funeral ceremonies including divination and music-making.
Album contains 131 photographs.
Circumstances: [WAG-] PIC DOC 16; [KUR-] PIC DOC 09.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A43.129