IDNO

N.19782.ROS

Description

Three-quarter length frontal portrait of a Mugeshu (sing.) chief, wearing a long-sleeved, dark-coloured tunic with two metal? bracelets, standing in front of a white screen attached to an elephant grass? fence.

Physical Condition: Glass plate negative in good condition. [ED 16/1/2008]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Bageshu

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 C32/9/ 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.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 5/11/2007]