photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A43.101
- Description
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Kenya, view of circular, thatched-roof building in rural setting. Small groups of Maragoli male and female adults and children sitting and standing in front of and inside building. "Burial mound" in foreground, with upright sticks stuck into it.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1880-1938 (Earlier date uncertain.)
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.10 centimetres
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Width: 18 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,A43.101