IDNO

N.18899.ROS

Description

Three-quarter length frontal portrait of two Bahima? boy scouts from Mbarara High School, wearing the traditional Boy Scout attire (including campaign hats with insignia, shirts, and neck scarves). One boy scout blows a horn. The background is a thatched? building.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Ankole

Cultural Affliation

?Banyankole

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 C29/58/ 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.

Biographical Information: Reverend Canon H.M. Grace was a pioneer of the Scouting Movement in Uganda. He formed the first Scout troop of Uganda at Mbarara High School, Ankole, Western Uganda, in 1915. At this time, he was a missionary and the headmaster of Mbarara high school. H.M. Grace’s decision to start a Scout troop was opposed by the native parliament. The Native Chief’s thought ‘scouting’ was a military activity and subsequently they feared their sons would be involved in another War. "The Native Parliament appealed to the Bishop and other missionaries, but Mr. Grace persisted with his idea and carried out his threat of resignation. Mr. Grace was too good a man to lose; the Chiefs capitulated and Scouting was born in Uganda.” [Source: The Scout Movement in Africa, by G. Walton
Journal of the Royal African Society © 1937 The Royal African Society]. [ED 12/9/2007]

Context: During the Mackie Ethnological Expedition (1919 - 20) Roscoe stayed in the house of Mr. Grace. (Roscoe 1922, 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]