An interview with Lomoru Ima, who sits with his youngest wife, Alice Nakanyet. The interview covers his experience of the asapan ceremony in his youth and broader questions regarding asapan through history.
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
I001
Rights owner
Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Cultural group
Turkana
Participants
Lomoru Ima, Alice Nakanyet, Lucas Ekamais Lowasa, Samuel Frederick Derbyshire
Country
Kenya
Place
Lotukumo, Turkana
Museum name
British Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum
Museum collections documentation
AF/B18/1 (photograph taken by Wayland)
AF1926.1211.2. (abusibus headdress acquired by Ernest Emley)
AF1947.16.35. (abusibus headdress).
2004.130.30279.1 (photograph taken by Sir Wilfred Thesiger in the early 1960s).