IDNO

P.39259.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. [ED 5/11/2007]

Place

C Africa; Rwanda; 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

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in an envelope marked C130/102/ 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/).

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]