IDNO

LS.139253.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda. XLIX. Uganda. 51 48.29 - 31.
Kibuka, the War God (2 slides)
- Kibuka's Stool (in the Museum.)

Documentary photograph of Kibuka's Stool, a "Carved wooden stool with four legs springing from a circular, shield-shaped base, and a basin-shaped seat provided with a tall, inner, upright rim, forming the receptacle in which the relics were kept." [Description from record E 1907.265 (6), JD 10/11/2022]

Place

E Africa; Europe British Isles; Uganda; United Kingdom; East Uganda; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Cultural Affliation

Buganda

Named Person

Kibuka

Photographer

?Roscoe, John R.

Collector / Expedition

Roscoe, John R.

Date

1910 - 1920

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Biographical Information: "Kibuka is the war god of the Buganda tribe of East Africa. According to legend, the king of the Buganda asked Kibuka's brother, the great god Mukasa, for assistance in a war. Mukasa sent Kibuka to help but told him to be sure the enemy did not know where he was stationed. He also warned his brother to avoid contact with the opponent's women. On one occasion, Kibuka stayed hidden in a cloud, where he killed the enemy by shooting arrows, winning the battle for the Buganda. Afterward, Kibuka became interested in a woman taken as a prisoner and took her back to his hut. When she discovered who he was, she escaped and told her people about his hiding place in the cloud. During the next battle, the enemy's archers shot arrows into the cloud where Kibuka was hiding and killed him." [Source: Enotes.com, http://history.enotes.com/myths-legends/kibuka, JD 6/12/2006]