IDNO

N.19334.ROS

Description

Profile view of a Bakyiga man with a wooden? box behind him, wearing a ragged goat-skin, metal? bangles around his wrists, pieces of string? tied below his knees and a beaded? necklace, while he stands on the verandah of a native-style house?. To the right, two wooden supporting posts are 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 C30/283/ 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. 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]