IDNO

N.19597.ROS

Description

An old woman wrapped in bark cloth, (‘wife of a former king’) seated on a leopard skin and a grass? mat outside one of the doorways of the Royal court house?.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Bunyoro

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro (Bakitara)

Named Person

Andereya Bisereko Duhaga II (b. 1882 - d. 1924)

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 C31/206/ 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. 192, Plate XXIV, with the caption: "Wife of a former king, said to be over 100 years old, Muhuma who has lived on milk diet”. Similar image also published in Roscoe, J., 1923, p. 193, Plate XXV, with the caption: "Wife of a former king, said to be over 100 years old”. Similar image also published in Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 148, with the caption: "Bunyoro: Two Wives of a former King”. [ED 12/10/2007]

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