IDNO

LS.139246.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda. WANYORO XLIX. Uganda. AF. VII 33.2. 48.23.
[FEMALE SYMBOL] PRINCESS OF UNYORO. NEGRo type. head, front & side.

A composite of two portraits of Nakatshupi, the sister of chief Ruyonga (Rionga), one with the woman side on to the camera; the other with her facing the camera. [JD 19/06/2018]

Place

E Africa; Uganda; ?Kodj

Cultural Affliation

Nyoro

Named Person

Nakatshupi; Chief Ruyonga (Rionga)

Photographer

Buchta, Richard

Collector / Expedition

Date

January - March 1879

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Richard Buchta, Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften. Dargestellt in 160 Photographien, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Richard Buchta. (Berlin 1881. Verlag Von J. F. Stiehm [JD 19/06/2018]

Related Image: Same portrait in another format at the Pitt Rivers Museum, reference 1998.203.1.36.1, with the following information:
Photographer: Richard Buchta
Date of Photo: January - March 1879
Continent: Africa
Geographical Area: East Africa
Country: Uganda |
Region/Place: Kodj?
Cultural Group: Nyoro
Format: Print black & white mounted
Size: 135 x 90 mm
Description
A vignette full face portrait of Nakatshupi, the sister of chief Ruyonga (Rionga). It seems that the king's settlement was near Kodj on the Nile, upstream from Foweira, which Buchta visited in January to March of 1879.
Publications history
Contemporary Publication - Richard Buchta, Die Oberen Nil-Länder: Volkstypen und Landschaften. Dargestellt in 160 Photographien, nach der Natur aufgenommen von Richard Buchta. (Berlin 1881. Verlag Von J. F. Stiehm)

Photographer: The Austrian photographer Richard Buchta (1845–1894) is regarded as having undertaken the earliest photographic tour of central Africa. His journey into Equatoria Province (now parts of South Sudan and northern Uganda) shaped the visual representation of its peoples in European literature for a generation, being celebrated and reproduced, mostly in engraved form, by all the major explorer-writers of central Africa in the period. ...
Buchta was born in 1845 in Radłów in Galicia (now Poland), and travelled to Cairo around 1870 as a practising photographer. He was possibly still working there in April 1877 when the Italian soldier and explorer Romolo Gessi (1831–1881) engaged him as photographer on an expedition to the Sudan that he was organizing. The circumstances of Buchta’s decision in mid-1878 to undertake a solo photographic tour southwards into Equatoria Province are not known, but Gessi didn’t accompany him as he had planned. [Source and for more information: Peoples of the Upper Nile: Richard Buchta in Equatoria, 1878–1880, https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/buchta.html, JD 19/06/2018]