IDNO

N.19186.ROS

Description

Roscoe’s Camp in the Kigezi District; in the foreground, to the right, there is a deck chair (with the name ‘J. Roscoe’ engraved on the back), two tables, with white tablecloths and a desk with various items on it, in front of a building with wooden lattice across the window. On the table in the foreground there is a metal tea pot and jug?. In the background, there is a man from the Kigezi District?, wearing a kanzu (white tunic).

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Kigezi District

Cultural Affliation

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 C30/134/ 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. 112 with the caption: "Camp of the Expedition in Kigezi”. [ED 29/10/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 29/10/2007]