IDNO

N.19319.ROS

Description

Portrait of King Kahaya II of Ankole seated on a chair in the Royal enclosure? holding his sacred bow and arrow while a sacred spear leans upright against the chair. The King wears a white fez, a white kanzu covered by a dark coloured robe and he also appears to have other items of regalia around his neck. Laid on a leopard skin next to the King’s chair is his staff made from cowrie shells? and other unidentified sacred paraphernalia.

Physical Condition: Film is an orange colour.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Ankole

Cultural Affliation

?Banyankole

Named Person

Edward Sulemani Kahaya (King of Ankole) (1895 - 1944)

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 C30/272/ 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.

Biographical Information: "When Kahaya was seventeen years of age, he was taken in hand by the Church Missionary Society, and, after two and a half years’ instruction, was baptised in the Protestant faith.” (Cunningham, J.F., 1905. Uganda and Its People. (London: Hutchinson and Co.) pp. 3 - 24.). [ED 12/9/2007]

Publication: Similar image published in Roscoe, J. 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: A General Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Company, Limited). p. 71 with the caption "Ankole: The King with sacred staff and spears.” And, p. 73 with the caption "Ankole: The King with scared bow and spear.” [ED 12/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 6/9/2007]