IDNO

P.39256.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? and she has metal? bangles around her wrists. The backdrop consists of a mud?-covered wall. [ED 5/11/2007]

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Kigezi District; near Lake Edward

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

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in an envelope marked C130/100/ by the cataloguer. The envelope was kept in box marked C130/ by the cataloguer. Previously stored in Large Wooden Drawer VI in Photo Archive Room.

Photograph taken on Rev. John Roscoe’s Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa, June 1919 to November 1920. See Roscoe.J. 1921.

Glass negative for this print likely to have been originally housed in ‘Box 11 Elgon’ (C32/10/).

Publication: Similar 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. 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]