Black and white negative

Museum number:
15-32692
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Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
8 x 10" Negative. Image depicts “kimaranguchet” headdress, used in circumcision rites on the Nandi Reserve. Hoefler's original description: "Near Kapsabet, Nandi Reserve. Close view of the “kimaranguchet” headdress, showing the dead birds hanging from the cross strings. The killing of these small birds and the hanging of them in the rigging of the headpiece is part of the rites of circumcision through which all boys must go; for failure to do so means that he can never become a warrior, and that his spirit will not live after death."
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Nandi Reserve
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1928-1929
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Production date:
1928-1929
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Black and white negative, accession number 15-32692, described as 8 x 10" Negative. Image depicts “kimaranguchet” headdress, used in circumcision rites on the Nandi Reserve. Hoefler's original description: "Near Kapsabet, Nandi Reserve. Close view of the “kimaranguchet” headdress, showing the dead birds hanging from the cross strings. The killing of these small birds and the hanging of them in the rigging of the headpiece is part of the rites of circumcision through which all boys must go; for failure to do so means that he can never become a warrior, and that his spirit will not live after death."

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