IDNO

P.141872.RDG

Description

Documentary photograph of a "Hippopotamus tusk head-dress worn on the head like a pair of horns., Mount Elgon".

Place

E Africa; Uganda; Mount Elgon

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

pre 1908

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.141834.RDG - P.141877.RDG were located in a brown envelope, now numbered C987/, and transferred from MAA Paper Archives, W10/2/6, by Jos Dudding, 17/1/2018.

Publication: Ridgeway, William. 'The Origin of the Turkish Crescent.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 38, 1908, pp. 241–258. Plate XXIV, Fig. 44. Hippopotamus tusk head-dress, Mount Elgon." [www.jstor.org/stable/2843299, JD 16/08/2018]