Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History

photograph scan of PRM number 1998.349.116.1

1998.349.116.1 (Film Negative 120mm)

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Key Information

Photographer

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Description

This is an earthwork of a typical Luo defended homestead enclosure dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The dug ditch and bank structure is called bur in Luo, and an abandoned home is gunda, which gives the term gunda bur for this type of archaeological earthwork. People lived within the earthwork, where houses were built and cattle tethered, protected by both the earthwork and the surrounding ring ditch. In the original notes, this photo is described as the 'old bur Asembo' and I am inclined to think that this is one of the old earthwork settlements of the Asembo clan of the Luo. Many of these spectacular earthworks still exist in Asembo Location up to day. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004 & CM 23/03/2007]

Cultural Group

Luo

Region

Nyanza Asembo Bay

Pitt Rivers Source

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Date of Photograph

1936

Accession number

1998.349.116.1

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1988

For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History "1998.349.116.1" 6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum. Accessed 19 Nov. 2015 <http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.116.1/>.

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