IDNO

N.19127.ROS

Description

A full-length distant frontal view of the king’s jester, wearing a variety of forms of personal adornment, including; animal skins, cowrie shells, metal bracelets, metal anklets, feathers and a headdress (which appears to be made from a variety of materials). The jester holds out an unidentifiable object which appears to have feathers sticking up from it. The jester stands in an open landscape with bushes and what is perhaps a fence in the distant background, possibly the Royal enclosure.

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: 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]