IDNO

N.19785.ROS

Description

Half-length frontal view of a young woman from the Kigezi district, seated on a wooden? box. She is wearing the traditional attire of goat-skin? - one piece is tied around her waist like a skirt. She also wears beaded? necklaces and she has metal? bangles around her wrists. The backdrop consists of a mud?-covered wall.

Physical Condition: Glass plate negative in good condition. [ED 28/1/2008]

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Kigezi

Cultural Affliation

Bagesu; ?Bakyiga

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 C32/10/ 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., 1924. The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: The Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.), p. 178, Plate XXIX, with the caption: "Young married woman of Kigezi”. [ED 26/9/2007]

Clothing: "The skins of animals formed the only clothing worn by either sex. ... Girls until about the age of seven went nude and when they showed signs of maturing they wore a small skin round the loins, one in front, one at the back; and they put their children in slings of sheep-skin on their backs, so that they could carry them with them as they went on with their work” (Roscoe, J., 1924. The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: The Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.), p. 165). [ED 26/9/2007]

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