IDNO

N.19144.ROS

Description

Four Banyoro women seated inside the Royal enclosure. The two women to the right are possibly the wives of a former king?. They appear to be wearing dark-coloured cloth or bark? cloth and are seated on the ground.

Physical Condition: Film is a yellow colour.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; western Uganda; Western District; Bunyoro

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro (Bakitara)

Named Person

Kyebambe IV Kamurasi (b. c.1822 - d. 1869)

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 C30/93/ 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. 149, with the caption: "Bunyoro: Two Wives of a Former King, The one of the left is said to be over 100 years old.” [ED 8/11/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 29/1/2008]