IDNO

N.19333.ROS

Description

Profile view of a Bakyiga man wearing a goat-skin, metal? bangles around his wrists and ankles and a beaded? necklace, while seated on a wooden box on the verandah? of a native-style house. To the right, a wooden supporting post is just visible.

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 C30/282/ 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., 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, Plate XXVII, with the caption "Man of the Bakyiga, Kigezi”. [ED 26/9/2007]

Clothing: "The skins of animals formed the only clothing worn by either sex. Boys and men wore a goat-skin, hanging from the right shoulder by a sling of two legs tied together, and passing under the left arm (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)

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