photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,B85.5
- Description
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Kenya, market scene. Kikuyu adult male holding ankle or ankle-ornament of adult female. Appears to be putting on or removing female's leg-rings. Small group of adult females sitting next to female, also holding rings. Females sitting on ground, male squatting next to them. Male wearing cloth around shoulders, hat, personal-ornaments. Females wearing cloth, personal-ornaments including finger-ornaments, wrist-ornaments, arm-ornaments, neck-ornaments and ear-ornaments. Crowd of male and female adults and children looking on at rear. thatched-roof building in background.
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: 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929-1963
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum?
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,B85.5
