IDNO

N.18907.ROS

Description

An Ankole prince, wearing a dark robe, sitting outside a ‘typical’ Ankole hut, "consisting of a framework of sticks, with a few stouter branches or saplings, the whole being covered with a rough layer of grass” (Roscoe 1907, p. 116). To the left, another Bahima? man wears a kanzu (white tunic).

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 C29/66/ 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: "The Bahima are not a progressive tribe. Their huts are of the most primitive beehive, consisting of a framework of sticks, with a few stouter branches or saplings, the whole being covered with a rough layer of grass scarcely worthy the name of thatch” [Source: Roscoe, J., 1907. "The Bahima: a cow tribe from Enkole,” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 37, pp. 93 - 118.] [ED 13/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 13/9/2007]