IDNO

N.19068.ROS

Description

Landscape view of a crater lake in the Ankole region.

Physical Condition: Film is yellow/brown colour.

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 C30/14/ by the cataloguer. The envelope was kept in box marked C30/ by the cataloguer.
Previously stored on Shelf 4, in group of 4 wooden boxes numbered 180.

Publication: Image published in Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 96 with the caption: "Ankole: Crater Lake”. [ED 3/1/2008]

Context: "The western part of Ankole is much more hilly than the capital, and there are a large number of extinct volcanoes, the craters of many of them being now occupied by lakes. In some instances the slope down to these lakes is very precipitous, while in others in can be descended, though the climb down calls for some care. In some of the larger depressions I could see that the agricultural people had made little gardens, and the vegetation on sloping sides, which led to a comparatively level bottom some four hundred feet below, had, as seen from the summit, quite a picturesque effect.” (Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 96.). [ED 3/1/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 3/1/2008]