IDNO

N.19552.ROS

Description

Full-length frontal portrait of five boys from the Nile region; one carrying a baby in a gourd shell.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; River Nile

Cultural Affliation

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 C31/172/ 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.

Publication: Similar image published in Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 324 with the caption: "On the Nile: Carrying a baby in a gourd shell”. [ED 6/2/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 15/10/2007]