IDNO

N.19446.ROS

Description

Two Baganda women on Mount Elgon, one wearing printed cloth, the other wearing plain cloth inside an enclosure? made from elephant grass?. Other than the bracelet worn by the woman on the left, neither women have any form of decoration or mutilation on their persons. In the background to the right, there is a thatched native-style building.

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 C31/72/ 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: Traditionally the women wore "beautiful terra-cotta coloured bark-cloths wrapped round their bodies, passing under the arms and extending to their feet; these they secured round their waist by a neat girdle of the same materia, but of a lighter colour” (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]