IDNO

N.19444.ROS

Description

Two young Baganda boys wearing kanzus (white tunics). The man to the left also wears a printed cloth tied around his head and he holds a walking stick?. The man to the right wears a European-style jacket over the kanzu (white tunic). The two Baganda men are photographed in front of a white screen in which both the white screen and the frame are visible.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Elgon; Mount Elgon

Cultural Affliation

Baganda

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 C31/70/ 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.

Clothing: The men in the early days wore bark-cloths in the toga fashion. Roscoe, J., 1921. Twenty Five Years in East Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). p. 77. [ED 21/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 18/9/2007]