IDNO

N.19260.ROS

Description

Blurred landscape view of the Mount Elgon region.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Elgon; Mount Elgon

Cultural Affliation

?Basabei

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 C30/215/ 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 images published in Roscoe, J., 1924. The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: The Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.), Plate I, with the captions: "Scenery on Mount Elgon: Commissioner’s camping ground” and "Commissioner’s Camp”. Similar image also published in Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition, p.294, with the caption: "Elgon Scenery” (London: Cassell and Co.). [ED 29/1/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 20/12/2007]