IDNO

N.19353.ROS

Description

A profile view of a man from the Bakonjo tribe seated on a wooden? box with a metal catch in front of a white screen. The man wears cloth in the toga-style and wears no other forms of adornment.

Physical Condition: Film is a yellow/brown colour.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Luenzori

Cultural Affliation

Bakonjo

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 C30/296/ 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. 137, Plate XXI, with the caption "Man of the Bakonjo tribe”. [ED 27/9/2007]

Context: "The Bakonjo were a small tribe inhabiting the eastern slopes of Mount Ruwenzori, or, as the natives, of the region frequently, call it, Luenzori. The tribe seemed to be native to that region and numbered only by a few hundreds. In appearance they were short and sturdy but of a low and degraded kind of countenance. They were to be found generally on the upper plateaux of the mountain, where they made small clearings in the scrub, built huts, and grew their crops” (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. pp. 138 -146). [ED 27/9/2007]

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