IDNO

N.19716.ROS

Description

Two wives and princesses, annotated as being ‘of the former king when Sir Samuel Baker first visited the country’: both wear barkcloth and are seated on a grass? mat and a leopard skin in an interior of the Royal enclosure? The background consists of a white screen with a metal frame.

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

Place

E Africa; Uganda; western Uganda; Western District; Bunyoro

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro (Bakitara)

Named Person

Kyebambe IV Kamurasi (b. c.1822 - d. 1869)

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 C32/4/ 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.

Publication: Similar images published in Roscoe, J., 1922. The Soul of Central Africa: An Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co.), p. 149, with the caption: "Bunyoro: Two Wives of a Former King, The one of the left is said to be over 100 years old.” [ED 8/11/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 8/11/2007]