photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,B85.3
- Description
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Kenya, large group of Kikuyu adult females, standing on train station. Train in background [section-view]. Females wearing cloths or animal-hides covering whole body, personal-ornaments including large ear-ornaments, neck-ornaments, arm-ornaments, leg-ornaments. Some carrying young children inside cloths which they are wearing, some carrying baskets and calabashes.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1929 (24th October series marked 1921.)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.40 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Geography: Kyambu and Nduyu Ya Kamirithu not identified in sources.
Circumstances: One of a series of photographs, including Af,85.1-26.
Im Coll: Af,85.3
Duplicate original photographic print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929-1963
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum?
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,B85.3
