IDNO

N.19124.ROS

Description

A full-length distant profile view of the king’s jester wearing a variety of forms of personal adornment including; animal skins, cowry-shells, metal bracelets, metal anklets and feathers and a headdress (which appears to be made from a variety of materials) standing in a landscape. The jester holds out an unidentifiable object which appears to have feathers sticking up from it and lying on the ground next to him is a long wooden? stick. In the background, there is a native wigwam-style hut made from logs and undergrowth.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Bunyoro; Kitara

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro (Bakitara)

Named Person

Andereya Bisereko Duhaga II (b. 1882 - d. 1924)

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 C30/76/ 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 image published in Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 212, with the caption: "Bunyoro: the King’s Jester”. [ED 2/10/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 2/10/2007]