IDNO

N.19737.ROS

Description

Three-quarter length frontal portrait of the King’s of Bunyoro’s brother wearing a white fez, kanzu (white tunic) with a dark-coloured European style jacket buttoned up over the kanzu. He stands in front of a white screen which is positioned in front of an elephant grass fence.

Physical Condition: In areas, there is yellow/brown coloration of the gelatin emulsion. February 1999.

Place

E Africa; Uganda; eastern Uganda; Eastern District; Mount Elgon

Cultural Affliation

Banyoro (Bakitara)

Named Person

King of Bunyoro (Mukama)

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 C32/6/ 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 king of Bunyoro was most helpful and spent hours of his time recounting what he remembered of the court as it was in his father’s day. He also procured for me those men who had the most intimate knowledge of the customs of the country, and he arranged a week’s pageant of the ceremonies of old, thus enabling me to secure photographs which I could not otherwise have obtained.” (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. ix). [ED 6/11/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 6/11/2007]