IDNO

P.50125.ACH2

Description

Head and shoulders portrait of a man annotated as being a ‘Maasai lion hunter’. The man is wearing a headdress with a chin strap, and with neck and arm ornaments.
The photograph was used for a Christmas card. [JD 17/6/2009]

Place

E Africa; Tanzania; Maasailand [Tanganyika]

Cultural Affliation

Maasai [historically Masai]

Named Person

Fosbrooke, Jane; Fosbrooke, Henry

Photographer

?Fosbrooke, Henry A.

Collector / Expedition

Fosbrooke, Jane; Fosbrooke, Henry

Date

post 1932

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.50111.ACH2 to P.50140.ACH2 were found in envelope now marked C210/8/. This was found in another envelope now marked C210/ which came from the wooden drawer 1.

Biographical Information: Henry Fosbrooke (? - 25th April 1996). Jane Fosbrooke joined Henry in Tangiyika in August 1932.
Mr Henry Fosbrooke had had a long career of public service in Tanzania and elsewhere in central and Southern Africa. Following a degree in Economics and Anthropology ( first class honours) and one year's colonial service course at the Cambridge, he started in Tanzania in 1931 as a District Officer (Cadet). He served in the Administration for 18 years , followed by 7 years as Government Sociologist.
Moving to Central Africa, he served as Director of the Institute of Social Research in Lusaka, as Rural Sociologist in the FAO development project in Botswana and as Co Manager of the UK sponsored Kafue Basin Survey in Zambia. Back in Tanzania he was Conservator of the Ngorongoro Conservation Unit for 3 years and a UNEP Consultant with the Tanzania Capital Authority in Dodoma. He has undertaken other consultancies and served for 8 years on the Board of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and 3 years as a member of the National Land Use Planning commission. In the course of his career as Conservator, he has generated a lot of his research material and collected a number of environmental , conservation papers, books and other publications. [Source: Northern Tanzania site, www.ntz.info/gen/n00176.html, JD 23/6/2009