IDNO

N.19345.ROS

Description

A station in the Lake Kioga region. In the foreground, there are some long planks of wood? laid out as a walkway? with three or four people walking on them in the distance. To the left, there is what appears to be a train and a warehouse-style building with a corrugated iron roof. A man wearing all white including a white pith helmet stands in the distance, to the left of the wooden walkway. To the right, there are some covered bays?. In the background there are two European-style buildings with corrugated iron roofs and what appears to be two or three native-style huts?.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Lake Kioga

Cultural Affliation

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 C30/292/ 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.

Context: "This Lake Kioga was not known until Major, now General Sir Ronald, Macdonald, the famous engineer who surveyed the Uganda Railway, hearing that it was much larger than was at that time generally supposed, sent one of his men to make a survey of it. Before that it was thought to be merely a slight broadening of the Nile, whereas it forms a large open expanse of water and has arms reaching far into some of the countries along its shores” (Roscoe, 1922, p.232). [ED 24/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 27/9/2007]