IDNO

N.19015.ROS

Description

Full-length portrait of a Bakyiga? man, wearing the skin of animal?, holding an oar and standing in front of a dug-out canoe. In the background, there are two Bakyiga? men seated in a dug-out canoe.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Elgon; Mount Elgon; Kigezi

Cultural Affliation

Bagesu; ?Bakyiga

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 C29/189/ 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.

Publication: Similar images published in Roscoe, J., 1924. The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: The Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.), Plate I, with the captions: "Scenery on Mount Elgon: Commissioner’s camping ground” and "Commissioner’s Camp”. [ED 23/10/2007]

Clothing: "The skins of animals formed the only clothing worn by either sex. ... Girls until about the age of seven went nude and when they showed signs of maturing they wore a small skin round the loins, one in front, one at the back; and they put their children in slings of sheep-skin on their backs, so that they could carry them with them as they went on with their work” (Roscoe, J., 1924. The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: The Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.), p. 165). [ED 26/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 20/12/2007]