IDNO

P.39257.ROS

Description

Half-length frontal view of a ‘Wife of a Prince of the Batuse of Ruanda’ (Roscoe, 1924, p. 184). The Rwandan woman wears off- the-shoulder white cloth wrapped around her. She also wears simple beaded? necklaces and a tiara-style? decorative hair band- which goes across the forehead. [ED 5/11/2007]

Place

C Africa; Rwanda; Kigezi District [Ruanda]

Cultural Affliation

Batuse or 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

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in an envelope marked C130/101/ 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 Kigezi’ (C32/10/).

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. 194, Plate XXXII with the caption: “Wife of a Prince of the Batuse of Ruanda”. [ED 5/11/2007]

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. My information with regard to these people was derived from two chiefs who were political prisoners in Mbarara. One of them was a prince of Ruanda who had fought against the British during the war and had been captured, and both were exiles from their own country because their king regarded them as dangerous to him and wished to kill them.” (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]