Janus: Fisher photograph collection

RCS/Fisher/Y3045C contains:
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39	House of Katikiro of Buganda
40	Wheelwright's shop P.W.D. Entebbe
41	Govt. [i.e. Government] House, Entebbe in course of construction
42	Mengo High School, C.M.S., for boys in 1906
43	Mengo High School, C.M.S. for boys. Football team
44	Kings School, Budo
45	Ntenga, 15 drums played together. Those on ground in two sextaves carefully tuned before being played.
46	Kabaka's pipe band, Mengo
47	'Banagunju' dancers of mushroom clan. Drums at least 200 years old
48	Ancient dress of Baganda of upper classes as Speke found them in 1861
49	Muganda Chief. War dress
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Fisher photograph collection

Title	Beating out barkcloth
Reference	Y3045C/34
Creator	Hattersley, Charles William, 1866-1934, missionary
Extent and Medium	Good condition, apart from slight yellowing.

Content and context

93 x 68 mm. Showing a Ugandan woman seated in a hut beating out barkcloth against a stone with a wooden mallet. After a section of bark had been peeled from the tree, the outer layer was discarded and the rest alternately beaten and dried until a tough fibrous material was produced.

Further information

A reproduction of this photograph can be found in Hattersley, C.W. (1906), 'Uganda by pen and camera', London: The Religious Tract Society, p.113.

Indexed

CN 145.

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Index Terms

Africa

Uganda

Hattersley, Charles William (1866-1934) missionary

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