IDNO

N.19036.ROS

Description

Landscape view of ‘Gordon’s Hill, Rejaf’.

Place

NE Africa; South Sudan; Eastern Equatorial District; Rejaf [Sudan]

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 C29/212/ 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: “At Khartoum I was entertained by Mr. Crowfoot, the Minister of Education. He most kindly enabled me to see much of the working of the Gordon College, and also told me a good deal about the place. The buildings are well planned and built of stone, and are very substantial and commodious. There are various branches of training, and boys of all classes of life are provided for. There is an elementary department, where the education is general and suitable for the ordinary worker. Then there is a technical department, in which smithing and general ironwork, carpentry and cabinet-making are excellently taught. In the upper school clerks, accountants, schoolmasters and civil engineers are trained. There is a good staff of Englishmen, many of them graduates of our Universities. The work of the college is really very advanced; but, to my mind, the tendency of the whole training is rather to strengthen than to remove the barrier which Islam raises against the spread of Christianity and true civilisation. It is an extraordinary state of affairs in a place which bears the name of a hero who gave his life for the cause of liberty, justice, and the Christian virtues, against which the whole forces of Islam are arrayed.” (Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 323.). [ED 2/1/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 2/1/2008]