Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
1998.349.246.1 (Film Negative 120mm)
Key Information
Photographer
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Description
A view of a shrine to the spirit mumbo in the middle ground, consisting of a notched post with ritual attachments, and long slender poles also erected beside it. There were so many people in Luo country possessed by these spirits in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that mumbo became a cult and the followers known as jo mumbo. Ritual sites of huts and other objects were constructed for the spirit mumbo and even the hut or homestead of a ja mumbo himself became a shrine. For example, the cult leader Obondo Mumbo had the whole of his large homestead as a mumbo ritual site. [Gilbert Oteyo 9/9/2004]
Cultural Group
Luo
Region
Nyanza
Pitt Rivers Source
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
Date of Photograph
1936
Accession number
1998.349.246.1
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated 1988
For citation use:
Pitt Rivers Museum Luo Visual History
"1998.349.246.1"
6 Jun. 2008. Pitt Rivers Museum.
Accessed 19 Nov. 2015
<http://photos.prm.ox.ac.uk/luo/photo/1998.349.246.1/>.
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