photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,B85.11
- Description
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Kenya [?], small group of Kikuyu beside tree on hilltop. Two adult females, one elderly, sitting, and one adult female standing. Child [male or female?] standing in foreground. Females wearing cloths or animal-hides, tied at shoulder, personal-ornaments including ankle-ornaments, wrist-ornaments, neck-rings, large ear-ornaments. Holding walking-sticks. Child wearing cloth, neck-ornament, wrist-ornament, holding stick. Rural setting.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1929 (?;other photographs in sereies taken in 1929.)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.40 centimetres
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Width: 10.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Geography: Some locations taken from Af,85.19 inscription.
Circumstances: One of a series of photographs, including Af,85.1-26.
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Sumbu and Aucka are probably age-set names or the girls lcna names.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929-1963
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum?
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,B85.11
