IDNO

N.19671.ROS

Description

The Katikiro (Prime Minister) Apolo Kagwa, with his family and their milk-pots seated in the Royal enclosure? made from elephant grass?. In the background the Katikiro is seated on a chair wearing a white fez and a kanzu (white tunic). Next to him there are two women? wearing the traditional head-cover and three young children. In the foreground there are a collection of milk-pots. To the left of the milk-pots is a man wearing a kanzu (white tunic) and a band around his head, and to the right there is another man? wearing a printed cloth.

Physical Condition: Glass plate negative in good condition. [ED 17/1/2008]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Bahima

Named Person

Apolo Kagwa

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 C32/1/ by the cataloguer. The glass negative box was kept in box marked C32/ by the cataloguer.
Previously stored on Shelf 4, in group of 4 wooden boxes numbered 180.

Context: The role of the Katikiro in Uganda was Prime Minister and Chief Justice. The Katikkiro in 1919 - 1920 was Apolo Kagwa. [Source: World Statesmen, www.worldstatesmen.org/Uganda.html, ED 5/9/2007]

Context: "Sir Apolo Kagwa, the long-time Katikkiro of Buganda was a close personal friend of Roscoe. It was to Roscoe that Kagwa entrusted his eldest son Blasio, whom he sent to England for education after the turn of the century. And it was to Kagwa that Roscoe turned to aid and advice in carrying out the detailed ethnographical survey, published in 1911 under the title: The Baganda: An Account of their Native Customs and Beliefs. (London: Macmillan and Co. Limited).” [Source: Journal of African History 8 (1): 163 - 166]. [ED 12/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 14/11/2007]