- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- Grave, a heap of stones with a carved wooden post beside it.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Photographer Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
- PRM source Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 1926 - 1930
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 13/12/2012
- Photographic process
- Negative film nitrate
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 103 x 75 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2013.2.27.1 Previous PRM number: 44 Previous other number: 344 37/3
Search terms: Death
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