
3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
Group portrait of three youths, sitting, wrapped in the goatskin cloaks traditionally worn at the time of circumcision, and wearing black ostrich feather headdresses and holding bows and blunted arrows for use during the final part of the lengthy circumcision ritual.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Image Details
Accession Number
2004.130.15232.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Kenya
Region
near Maralal
Cultural Group
Samburu
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
1977
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