An interview with Peter Epodo Lobuin and his wife Maria Epodo covering their knowlegde of the asapan ceremony, spear and shield construction/use and the importance of spears in asapan and beyond.
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
I004
Rights owner
Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Cultural group
Turkana
Participants
Peter Epodo Lobuin , Maria Epodo, Lucas Ekamais Lowasa, Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Country
Kenya
Place
Nakurio, Turkana
Museum name
British Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum
Museum collections documentation
AF/B89/259 (photograph taken by Charles William Hobley, title: 'Turkana men, V1/36')
2004.130.30383.1. (photograph taken by Sir Wilfred Thesiger in the early 1960s).