IDNO

P.57254.RDG

Description

Half-length frontal portrait of a Baruanda? (Rwandian?) men with a severe cleft palate. The man wears a leather loin cloth, a pelt as a cape, a basketry bag over the left shoulder, and neck and wrist ornaments. A wooden fence and tree are in the background.

Place

C Africa; ?Rwanda

Cultural Affliation

?Baruanda (?Rwandian)

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa ?1900

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.57192.RDG to P.57260.RDG were found in C274/1/ which came from C274/. The latter was kept in Wooden Drawer VI.

Group: No information has been found on the term ‘Baruanda’, but the term ‘Ba’ (tribe of) ‘Ruanda’ probably refers to Ruanda-Urundi, which was a Belgian suzerainty and UN trust territory until 1962 when it became the independent states of Rwanda and Burundi. [Source: MSN Mappoint Online, Encyclopedia Britannica Online, JD 19/6/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [JD 2/7/2007]