IDNO

N.19337.ROS

Description

Profile view of a Ruandan man from the Kigezi district seated on the ground (on the verandah?) of a native-style house while a black and white dog lies next to him. He wears a necklace and a long toga-style robe. To the right, a wooden pillar and a section of the structure of the roof is visible.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Kigezi District

Cultural Affliation

?Batuse; ?Balyanwanda of Ruanda

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 C30/285/ 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., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 102 with the caption "Man of Ruanda”.

Context: "Though much of the Ruanda country became Belgian after the war, there is still a large part of Kigezi which is British Ruanda. My information with regard to these people was derived from two chiefs who were political prisoners in Mbarara. One of them was a prince of Ruanda who had fought against the British during the war and had been captured, and both were exiles from their own country because their king regarded them as dangerous to him and wished to kill them” (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. 184). [ED 26/9/2007]

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