The Austro-Hungarian born naturalist, conservationist, artist and author, Joy Adamson was a prolific, self-taught painter who spent much of her life in Kenya, where she created over 500 paintings of the fauna, flora and peoples of the country. This collection is now held at the National Museums of Kenya Archives, and forms a valuable corpus of visual ethnographic and anthropological data.
Subjects include many different warrior types, chiefs, elders, women and girls, masked dancers, ceremonial attires etc…
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