IDNO

N.19798.ROS

Description

Full-length profile views of three ?Bakyiga men from the Kigezi district; two holding spears and a shield and one holding a spear and a bow and arrow. The background consists of an open, grassy landscape.

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

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Kigezi District

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: Image 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. 174, Plate XXVIII, with the caption "Bakyiga warriors”.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Elisabeth Deane 24/9/2007]