IDNO

N.19598.ROS

Description

An old woman (‘wife of a former king’) wrapped in bark cloth, wearing a head band and holding a long wooden stick while standing on a leopard skin.

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. 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., 1923, 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., 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]