
4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 22cm x 32cm
Description
Portrait of a youth shortly after his circumcision, wearing two black ostrich feathers in a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds he has shot with his bow and arrows.
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
2004.130.15399.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Kenya
Region
near Maralal
Cultural Group
Samburu
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
1977
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