IDNO

N.19159.ROS

Description

Close-up view of a basket, possibly a fishing basket? on the ground within the Royal enclosure? in Bunyoro. There appears to be a fence (made from elephant grass?) in the background.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Bunyoro

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro

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 C30/108/ 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.

Context: "In wood-work, pottery, basketry, and the preparation of salt, also, there is, combined with the most primitive of methods, evidence of surprising improvement and advance.” 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. 10). [ED 29/1/2008]

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