Description (Labels & Markings)
Label attached with string: 'Head-dress / Miro tribe, Bukedi, Uganda / Ernest B.Haddon, B.A., 1907'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register, E 1907.570-574: 'Five head-dresses, with foundation of matted human hair: one a fillet of closely set black seeds and white shell beads covered with cock’s hackles; and four skull-caps, three covered with black seed beads coated with red earth, and one (imperfect) with white glass beads.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Label attached with string, incorrect Annual Report number: '07.732'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card E 1907.574, originally marked [AR] 1907.732: 'Head-dress c.f. 731 / Imperfect - with white glass beads.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Cultural group previously recorded as 'Miro'. Jack H. Driberg noted in 1921 that Miro was a term by which outsiders called the Lango people, which they rejected. The cultural group field has been updated to 'Lango'.

Driberg, J.H. (1921). 'The Lango District, Uganda Protectorate'. Geographical Journal Vol. 58, No. 2.


Event Date 30/11/2021
Author: Mark Elliott

Context (Amendments / updates)
The catalogue card for this object is marked with the Annual Report number AR 1907.732. The idno is noted on an additional catalogue card for AR 1907.729-731 but this appears to have been in error as the description lists three black seed bead caps and notes that 731 is missing. The Annual Report numbers have been listed under the year of Accession rather than year of Report (1908), so both have been entered into the Other Nos. field.
Event Date 2/12/2021
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Cap or skullcap made from beads. Spiral of white glass beads attached to a foundation of cord and human hair. Many strings of beads broken and missing including all of the centre.
Event Date 2/12/2021
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
The records for the five headdresses listed together in the Accession Register as E 1907.570-574 and in the Annual Report as AR 1908.728-732 have become entangled with one another. Since the objects are labelled with secure historic labels, the decision was taken to follow the numbering on these, and treat the numbers on the catalogue cards as incorrect.
Event Date 2/12/2021
Author: Katrina Dring

Conservation (Pest Debris Removed)
CON.2021.5219 | Pest Debris Removed
Event Date 7/12/2021
Author: Ayesha Fuentes

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2021.5233 | Freezing
Event Date 9/12/2021
Author: Ayesha Fuentes