IDNO

N.19682.ROS

Description

Full-length back view of a peasant girl from the Ankole region wearing cowhide? and a metal necklace standing in front of a building with wooden shutters.

Physical Condition: Glass plate negative in good condition. [ED 15/1/2008]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

?Bahera

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

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: "Among the Bahera, who are the servants of the Bahuma in Ankole, and are used in all agricultural and building operations, there are artisans who comprise three distinct trades, the smiths and ironworkers in general, the carpenters and the potters. Upon these people the pastoral clans depend for various weapons -tools, household furniture, milk vessels, and water-pots. The ironworkers I will not deal with here, for the smiths are not so skillful as those of the Bunyoro and there are few smelters, the smiths obtaining their metal from Bunyoro and other countries.” (Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. pp. 73 - 74). [ED 12/9/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 25/10/2007]