IDNO

N.19595.ROS

Description

Half-length frontal portrait of a ‘female type’ of ‘Mixed blood, Muhuma and Negro’ seated on a wooden box with a metal clasp wearing a printed fabric (with a flower print) wrapped around her body. The background consists of a white screen.

Physical Condition: Film is yellowing.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Bunyoro

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro [historically Bakitara]; Muhuma

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 C31/203/ 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: Image published in Roscoe, J., 1923. The Bakitara (or Banyoro): The First Part of the Report of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), p. 321, Plate XII, with the caption: "Female. Mixed blood, Muhuma and Negro.” [ED 6/2/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 6/2/2008]