IDNO

N.19511.ROS

Description

King Kahaya II of Ankole, seated on a chair positioned on a leopard skin by the front steps of his colonial-style brick house. The King wears a white fez and robes. A man, probably one of the King’s officials is seated on one of the steps, wearing a white kanzu covered with a short dark-coloured jacket. The house is probably situated in the Royal enclosure? because in the background a picket fence of elephant grass can be seen.

Physical Condition: Film is yellowing.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Ankole

Cultural Affliation

?Banyankole

Named Person

Edward Sulemani Kahaya (King of Ankole) (1895 - 1944)

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 C31/138/ 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.

Biographical Information: "When Kahaya was seventeen years of age, he was taken in hand by the Church Missionary Society, and, after two and a half years’ instruction, was baptised in the Protestant faith.” (Cunningham, J.F., 1905. Uganda and Its People. (London: Hutchinson and Co.) pp. 3 - 24). [ED 12/9/2007]

Context: "I found the King living in a large house built after the English style, with a corrugated iron roof, doors and glazed windows; inside were table and chairs, and on the floor was a good carpet. All this marked a considerable advance from the time of my last visit to him, when I was received in a mud hut with a floor of hard earth” (Roscoe 1922, p. 55). [ED 12/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 6/9/2007]