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Kikuyu purification ceremony, 1937 (b/w photo) [1995/076/1/2/5/32]

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BRV3509785
Image title
Kikuyu purification ceremony, 1937 (b/w photo) [1995/076/1/2/5/32]
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British Empire and Commonwealth Collection, Bristol Archives, UK
Medium
black and white photograph
Date
1937 AD (C20th AD)
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A Kikuyu man takes part in a purification ceremony, drinking a concoction from the nose of a sacrificed goat. It is administered by a "Mundu mugu" (magic man), and either spat or vomited out to cleanse the perpetrator of their sins. Original manuscript caption: 'Purification ceremony, S. Nyeri, 1936. Mundu mugu standing. 1936. Supplicant drinking a concoction made from various herbs & minerals, & the undigested contents of a goats stomach, from the nose of the dead goat.'

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animal / drink / goat / farm animal / animals / crouch / huxley collection / man / east africa / men / colony / ceremonies / british commonwealth / british empire / crouching / ritual / ethnographic / goat / anthropological / colonialism / social history / ethnography / photography / ceremony / anthropology / colonial / goats / male / purification / east african / rituals / sacrifice / kenyan / kenya / kikuyu / mundu mugu / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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