IDNO

N.19420.ROS

Description

Full-length profile view of a peasant girl from the Ankole region wearing cowhide?, a metal necklace and metal bracelets standing in front of a building with wooden shutters and a thatched roof.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Ankole

Cultural Affliation

?Bahera

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 C31/48/ by the cataloguer. The envelope was kept in box marked C31/ by the cataloguer.
Previously stored on Shelf 4, in group of 4 wooden boxes numbered 180.

Context: "Among the Bahera, who are the servants of the Bahuma in Ankole, and are used in all agricultural and building operations, there are artisans who comprise three distinct trades, the smiths and ironworkers in general, the carpenters and the potters. Upon these people the pastoral clans depend for various weapons -tools, household furniture, milk vessels, and water-pots. The ironworkers I will not deal with here, for the smiths are not so skillful as those of the Bunyoro and there are few smelters, the smiths obtaining their metal from Bunyoro and other countries.” (Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. pp. 73 - 74). [ED 12/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 25/10/2007]