Context (Display)
Copper wire attached to the object, as well as a piece of perspex, (now removed) indicate that the headband was once displayed before 1990.
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1907.222: 'A band head fillet with long frontal pendants of coloured glass beads. The God 'Wamala' worn by priests re. disease of cattle'
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Labels & Markings)
Small white label attached to the object reads: '08.713'.
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for AR 1908.713: 'A head fillet with glass bead pendants (cult of the god Wamala) worn by priests when ascertaining the diseases of cattle. It consists of a circlet of different coloured beads, each ending in a circular glass bead.'
Event Date 1908
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Previously entered on the database under the number E 1908.713. This is the Annual Report number, used as an accession number. This object is listed in the List of Accessions for 1907, which is published in the 1908 Annual Report, hence the confusion between 1907 and 1908 AR numbers.

Event Date 18/4/2001
Author: maa

Context (References)
Bennett, Alison (2019) Material Cultures of Imperialism in Eastern Africa, c.1870–1920: A Study of Ethnographic Collecting and Display. Unpublished Phd Thesis, University College London, p. 239
Event Date 2019
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Headband of glass beads. Headband is made of a circlet of blue, white and red beads in a zigzag pattern. Strings of red, blue, white, black and yellow beads hand down from the circlet, most ending with a blue, clear or yellow annular bead. Most of the annular beads are dark blue.
Event Date 23/11/2021
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (References)
Listed as part of Table 2.1, Selection of objects collected by John Roscoe associated with Gods of the Baganda and Bahima in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge (MAA), and Pitt-Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (PRM).
Event Date 3/2/2021
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
Illustrated in Roscoe, John, (1915). The Northern Bantu: An Account of some Central African Tribes of the Uganda
Protectorate (Cambridge), plate XII, p. 132, captioned 'Bead head-dress worn by priests when giving an oracle (Banyankole Tribe)'.
Event Date 3/2/2021
Author: rachel hand

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2024.5895 | Assessment Only
Event Date 12/3/2024
Author: Stephanie De Roemer

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2024.5935 | Assessment Only
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Stephanie De Roemer

Loan (Long Term Gallery Loan)
The Uganda Museum, 10/06/2024 to 10/6/2027, Repositioning the Uganda Museum
Event Date 10/6/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu