IDNO

N.19331.ROS

Description

A young Bakyiga girl from the Kigezi district wearing the traditional attire of goat-skin?, one piece tied around the waist like a skirt, while the other piece is tied around her neck, and worn over her left arm. She also wears a necklace and bangles around her wrist. She stands in front of a wooden-box with a backdrop of a mud?-covered wall.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Kigezi District

Cultural Affliation

Bagesu; Bakyiga

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 C30/281/ 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.
Clothing: "The skins of animals formed the only clothing worn by either sex. ... Girls until about the age of seven went nude and when they showed signs of maturing they wore a small skin round the loins, one in front, one at the back; and they put their children in slings of sheep-skin on their backs, so that they could carry them with them as they went on with their work” (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.), p. 165). [ED 26/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 26/9/2007]