
3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
Group portrait of young men and boys, pictured here a few days before their circumcision. They are wearing the traditional women's dress of black tanned goat skins and are carrying sticks from which they will make bows and arrows; the women's dress will only be discarded at the final ceremony forty days later.
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
2004.130.27903.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Kenya
Region
Mathews Mountain Range Mount Tipito
Cultural Group
Samburu
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
1961
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