IDNO

N.18896.ROS

Description

Two Bahima? men, one wearing a kanzu (white tunic) and the other wearing a kanzu (white tunic) covered by a European-style coat standing either side of an upright wooden display-stand? covered with animal skins?. Positioned in front of the animal skins are two large bows - the ‘Royal bows’. An arrow is tied to the bows - at the point where they cross over each other. In the background there is a picket fence made from elephant grass? (possibly of the Royal enclosure?).

Place

E Africa; Uganda; ?Ankole

Cultural Affliation

?Bahima

Named Person

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 C29/54/ 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.

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