IDNO

N.19026.ROS

Description

A line of people (from the Toro region?); many are wearing kanzus (white tunics) and one man appears to be holding a bicycle.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Toro

Cultural Affliation

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 C29/207/ 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: "I learned that the people of this district lived on the upper slopes of the mountains and belonged to various cannibal tribes. They are not at all friendly to Europeans, and do not wish to be interfered with or to have any improvements introduced into their country; indeed, they are convinced that the advent of the white man will only add to their burdens and in no wise bring a blessing. The country that I have traversed between Lake Edward and Kabarole, the native capital of Toro, was therefore thinly populated, though I did pass one or two small villages. After my experiences in Ankole and Kigezi, where food and cattle were plentiful and the supply of milk abundant, this change to scarcity proved most unpleasant. The paths, too, were in poor condition; in some places I had to walk over long stony stretches, and in others over sand so deep that the bicycle wheels would not go through and the machine had to be carried across.” (Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 118.). [ED 14/1/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 14/1/2008]