IDNO

N.18894.ROS

Description

Miss Baker of the Church Missionary Society is being escorted by two Bahima? men, one at the front and one at the back of a wheel chair. To the left, there is another Bahima man onlooking. Miss Baker wears European-style clothing and shoes including a hat and she appears to hold a white parasol. All three Bahima? men wear kanzus (white tunic) and are barefoot. In the background there is a thatched? native-style house.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Ankole

Cultural Affliation

Bahima

Named Person

Miss Baker

Photographer

?Roscoe, John R.

Collector / Expedition

Roscoe, John R. [Mackie Ethnological Expedition, Uganda, 1919 - 1920]

Date

1919 - 1920

Collection Name

Roscoe Collection

Source

Format

Film Negative Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This negative was kept in an envelope marked C29/52/ by the cataloguer. The envelope was kept in box marked C29/ by the cataloguer.
Previously stored on Shelf 4, in group of 4 wooden boxes numbered 180.

Context: Miss Baker, of the Church Missionary Society collected over 200 Bahima proverbs in the Ankole region. [Source: http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/VI/XXIII/234.pdf].
Roscoe also had meals with Miss Baker on the Mackie Ethnological Expedition (1919 - 20), he writes: "As my friend Mr. Grace was away ill, I had, after the first night, to make arrangements for some means of existence until my goods from Kampala could reach me. This seemed a difficulty, as there was no hotel or shop that could supply me with the necessary household equipment; but Miss Baker, the lady missionary, came again to my rescue, assuring me that I need not worry in the least, as she could provide all that I needed until Mr. Grace recovered and came back. She most generously arranged for me to go to her house for meals...” (Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.). pp. 53 - 54.). [ED 12/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 12/9/2007]