IDNO

N.19516.ROS

Description

King Kahaya II of Ankole, seated on a bench? positioned on animal skins, outside his colonial-style brick house, holding his sacred staff, decorated with cowrie shells and beads?. The King wears a watch, a white fez, a kanzu (white tunic), covered by a dark coloured robe and he also appears to have other items of regalia around his neck. There are three metal spears decorated with cowrie shells leaning against the metal? bench? next to the King. In the background the house has wooden frames for the windows.

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 C31/143/ 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]

Publication: Image published in Roscoe, J. 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: A General Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Company, Limited). p. 71 with the caption "Ankole: The King with sacred staff and spears.” Similar image published in Roscoe, J. 1922. p. 73, with the caption "Ankole: The King with scared bow and spear.” [ED 12/9/2007]

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