IDNO

N.19118.ROS

Description

Hot springs along Lake Albert, near the salt-works in Kibero, Bunyoro.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Bunyoro; Kibero; Lake Albert

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro (Bakitara)

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 C30/67/ 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: Similar images published in Roscoe, J., 1923. The Bakitara (or Banyoro): The First Part of the Report of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). p. 256, Plate XXXII, with the captions: "Lake Albert. Hot springs at Kibero from which salt is obtained” and "Lake Albert. Sacred pool for human sacrifices at Kibero”. [ED 10/1/2008]

Context: "The salt-districts are therefore of great importance and are worked with considerable skill by men and women whose whole lives are spent in the production of the necessary supply. The salt-works of Bunyoro are situated at Kibero, a district which lies along the shore of Lake Albert and on the lower slopes of the escarpment. There, during the rainy season, the water from the hills rushes down to the lake in a river which, for the time, floods the salt-beds and prevents the collection of the salt. Under the rocky bed of intermittent river there runs a stream of hot medicated water, which bubbles up through the rock in hot springs all along the course of the river for fully a mile and a half from the base of the escarpment.” (Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 160.). [ED 10/1/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 10/1/2008]