IDNO

LS.140330.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Uganda. 50 Uganda 78. 49.52, 53.
Amulets. Leopard claws.
- other amulets.

Place

E Africa; Uganda

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Roscoe, John R.

Collector / Expedition

?Roscoe, John R. [Mackie Ethnological Expedition, Uganda, 1919 - 1920]; Church Mission Society

Date

circa ?1919 - 1920

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in Roscoe, John, 1911. 'The Baganda; an account of their native customs and beliefs (London Macmillan), and captioned: "Fig. 51. Amulets.
To the right, a conical object containing the jawbone; to the left, an object with a loop containing the umbilical cord."
Text on pp. xi - xii notes, "I am indebted to Baron A. von Hügel for kindly permitting me to photograph objects of interest which are now in the Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge...
"For the photographs I am chiefly indebted to S. C. Tomkins, Esq., C.M.G., Chief Secretary to the Uganda Protectorate, and to the Revs. R. H. Leakey and E. Millar and C. Hattersley, Esq., of the Church Missionary Society." [JD 01/07/2024]