IDNO

N.19665.ROS

Description

Portrait of King Kahaya II of Ankole seated on a chair in the Royal enclosure? holding his sacred staff (decorated with cowrie shells?) and a fly whisk?. The King wears 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 is some unidentified sacred paraphernalia laid out on a leopard skin next to the King’s chair. The background consists of an elephant grass fence. [ED 17/1/2008]

Place

E Africa; Uganda; western Uganda; Southern District; Ankole

Cultural Affliation

?Bahima

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

Glass Negative Halfplate

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This negative was kept in glass negative box marked C31/269/ by the cataloguer. The glass negative box 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 11/9/2007]

Publication: Similar 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.” And, p. 73 with the caption "Ankole: The King with sacred bow and spear.” [ED 11/9/2007]

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