IDNO

N.19791.ROS

Description

Frontal view of a young Batuse or Balyanwanda man of the Kigezi District of Rwanda, wearing white cloth, seated against the wall of a native-style house with a thatched roof and porch area.

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

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Kigezi [Ruanda]

Cultural Affliation

Batuse? Balyanwanda?

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.

Context: "The Batuse or Balyanwanda of RuandA: Though much of the Ruanda country became Belgian after the war, there is still a large part of Kigezi which is British Ruanda.” (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. 184). [ED 5/11/2007]

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