91 Photographic prints ((1 box), black & white, 11 x 15 cm. or smaller)
Container:
Box 1
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Black-and-white photographs
Place:
Uganda
Africa
Date:
circa 1895 - 1925
Scope and Contents:
Front cover of the album is inscribed "Amy J. Welsh, June 19--, Igauga [Iganga], Busoga." Photographs from the Kingdoms of the Interlacustrine area in East Africa. Contains portraits of King Daudi, Four Kings and their Prime Ministers, Sir Apolo Kagwa, Chief Bongo, Reverand B. Musoke, and a Busoga Chief. Images also show relics in a Tutsi tomb, missionary hospital and schools, marketplaces, weddings and other daily life. Additional group and family photographs of Christian missionaries in the region.
Arrangement note:
Images indexed by page number.
Biographical / Historical:
Album was compiled by Christian missionary Amy J. Welsh while working in Iganga, Uganda between 1906 and 1925.
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Original caption reads "Mutesa's Tomb," in Kasubi. King Daudi Chwa II sits behind the spears. Also appears as a postcard published by Alfred Lobo, Uganda - Series #3, ca. 1920s. "Mutesa's Tomb (interior). Kampala, Uganda."
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Original caption reads "Waiting for the ants to fly."
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This collection is comprised of a photographic album, dating from 1897-1903, that includes images of Momabassa, and Frere Town in Kenya and the Ankole, Toro and Mengo regions of Uganda and some locations in between. African peoples depicted include the Waniki and Banma. Subjects include the French Roman Catholic mission station at Budu, Mengo Church, Mengo Hospital, CMS station in Koki, the Koki Roman Catholic station, House and enclosure of the King of Koki, missionaries and their families, and wives and children of chiefs. Some of the figures depicted include Reverend H. Clayton, Reverend W. H. R. Leakey, Reverend Ernest Millar, missionaries, including Miss Walker, Miss Chadwick, and Miss Brown; Sir Apolo Kaggwa; Kamswaga, King of Koki, and Kahara, King of Akole as well as local chiefs, Lieutenant Hobart; A. C. Hattersley, and Archibald Walker.
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Church Missionary Society. Uganda Mission Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Man and boy pose at a table. The man is writing in a book.
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The papers of Francis P. Conant document his anthropological work and, to a lesser extent, his previous career as a journalist and photographer. Francis Paine Conant was a cultural anthropologist who pioneered the use of satellite data in anthropology. He conducted fieldwork in Nigeria and Kenya, and his research interests spanned cultural ecology, AIDS, malaria, and sex and gender studies. He was also Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hunter College, where he taught from 1962 to 1995.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of Francis P. Conant document his anthropological work and, to a lesser extent, his previous career as a journalist and photographer. The bulk of the collection consists of his field work in Africa, specifically his doctoral research among the Barawa in Nigeria during the 1950s; his work among the Pokot in Kenya for Walter Goldschimdt's Culture and Ecology in East Africa Project during the 1960s; and his later research among the Pokot during the 1970s incorporating remote sensing tools. These materials include his dissertation, field notes, kinship charts, maps, correspondence, photographs, and sound recordings. The collection also contains photographs, correspondence, and writings relating to the Bernheim-Conant expedition through Africa. Among the photos are Polaroids of Mohammad Naguib, first president of Egypt. Also present in the collection are his published and unpublished academic writings, his writings and correspondence as a news correspondent in Finland, and files from courses that he taught. In addition, the collection contains some of Conant's digital files, which have not yet been examined. Overall there is little correspondence in the collection, aside from some letters scattered throughout the collection relating to his research and writings (both as an academic and a journalist).
Arrangement:
Collection is organized into 9 series: 1) Nigeria, 1956-1960, undated; 2) Kenya, 1961-1974, undated; 3) Remote Sensing, 1967, 1971, 1976-1984, 1991-1992, 2002; 4) Bernheim-Conant Expedition, 1953-1956; 5) Writings, 1960-1966, 1974-1995, 2000-2006, undated; 6) University Files, 1956-1957, 1961, 1970, 1972, 1982-1995, undated; 7) Biographical Files and Letters, circa 1940, CIRCA 1946-1947, 1951, 1955, 1979, 1989-1991, 1996-2000, 2007-2011, undated; 8) Sound Recordings, 1956-1965, 1971, 1977-1978, undated; 9) Digital Files
Biographical / Historical:
Francis Paine Conant was a cultural anthropologist who pioneered the use of satellite data in anthropology. He conducted fieldwork in Nigeria and Kenya, and his research interests spanned cultural ecology, AIDS, malaria, and sex and gender studies. He was also Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hunter College, where he taught from 1962 to 1995.
Conant was born on February 27, 1926 in New York City. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, he deferred college to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1944. He served as a field artillery observer for the 294th Field Artillery Battalion and helped liberate two concentration camps during World War II. After he was honorably discharged in 1946, he attended Cornell University, where he obtained his B.A. in 1950. While at Cornell, a Finnish student invited Conant to Finland to help relocate families, farms, and livestock further from the Russian border, a protective measure against another Russian invasion. Conant accepted his invitation and took time off from his academic studies to spend several months in Finland in 1947, as well as a summer in 1949.
After graduating from Cornell, Conant attended University of Iowa's graduate writing program for a short time. Dissatisfied with the program, he worked briefly for the Carnegie Endowment, during which time he occasionally served as a personal driver for Alger Hiss. In 1951, he returned to Finland to pursue a career in journalism. He worked for United Press International until 1953.
From December 5, 1953 to May 26, 1954, Conant traveled throughout Africa as part of the Bernheim-Conant Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The expedition was led by Claude Bernheim, the father of his first wife, Miriam. They traveled 16,000 miles through Northern Central and Eastern Africa, collecting film footage and material culture for the museum. Conant served as the writer and photographer for the expedition, publishing illustrated articles in the New York Times and Natural History Magazine.
He later returned to Africa as a doctoral student at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD in Anthropology in 1960. After studying the Hausa language at the International African Institute in London, he traveled to Nigeria as a Fellow of the Ford Foundation to carry out his fieldwork in Dass Independent District, Bauchi Province. Working among the Barawa that live in the mountains of Dass, he focused on their religion and its impact on the technology, social and political organization, and structure of their society. His dissertation was titled "Dodo of Dass: A Study of a Pagan Religion of Northern Nigeria." During his fieldwork, he also collected data on rock gongs, which were first identified and written about by Bernard Fagg in 1955.
In 1961 to 1962, Conant was a research associate for Walter Goldschmidt's Culture and Ecology in East Africa Project. The purpose of the project was to conduct a controlled comparison of four different East African societies and the farmers and pastoralists within each tribe. Conant was assigned to conduct ethnographic research among the Pokot in West Pokot District in Kenya. This research would form the basis of his remote sensing work in the same area more than a decade later.
Conant was first introduced to remote sensing data in 1974 when his colleague Priscilla Reining showed him Landsat imagery of one his former fieldwork sites. He was inspired by the potential applications of satellite data to study cultural and ecological relationships. In 1975, he and Reining organized a workshop on "Satellite Potentials for Anthropological Studies of Subsistence Activities and Population Change." He incorporated remote sensing tools in his 1977 to 1980 study of the changing cultivation patterns and management of livestock in West Pokot District. His research combined traditional fieldwork (which included data he had collected in the 1960s), LANDSAT data, and geospatial data collected from the ground.
Later in his career, Conant's research interests expanded to include the spread of diseases, specifically AIDS and malaria. He, along with Priscilla Reining, John Bongaarts, and Peter Way found that uncircumcised men were 86% more likely to contract HIV than circumcised men. Their findings were published in their paper "The Relationship Between Male Circumcision and HIV Infection in African Populations" (1989). His research on malaria focused on the spread of the disease during African prehistory.
Conant taught briefly at Columbia University and was an Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, at Amherst in 1960-1961. Most of his academic career was spent at Hunter College, where he served as Chair of the Anthropology Department several times. He also founded and headed the college's Research Institute in Aruba.
Conant was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University's Pitts Rivers Museum in 1968-1969. He was also a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International African Institute, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Anthropological Institute. In addition, he was actively involved with the Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Conant died at the age of 84 on January 29, 2011.
Sources Consulted
Bates, Daniel G. 2011. Francis P. Conant: A Tribute to a Friend of Human Ecology. Human Ecology 39(2): 115.
Bates, Daniel and Oliver Conant. Francis P. Conant. Anthropology News. 52(5): 25.
Conant, Veronika. Email message to Lorain Wang, October 22, 2013.
[Curriculum Vitae], Series 7. Biographical Files and Letters, Francis Conant Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Francis P. Conant. http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/anthropology/faculty-staff/in-remembrance/francis-p.-conant [accessed August 23, 2013].
1926 -- Born February 27 in New York City, New York
1944-1946 -- Enlists in Army and serves in World War II as a flash ranger in 294th Field Artillery Battalion
1950 -- Earns B.A. from Cornell University in English and Russian, minor in Engineering
1953-1954 -- AMNH Bernheim-Conant Expedition to northern Africa
1957 -- Conducts language studies at the International African Institute
1957-1959 -- Conducts fieldwork in northern Nigeria
1960 -- Earns PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University
1960-1961 -- Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1961-1962 -- Research Associate for Culture and Ecology in East Africa Project directed by Walter Goldschimdt
1962 -- Joins faculty at Hunter College
1968-1969 -- Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University, Pitt-Rivers Museum
1977-1980 -- Sets up remote sensing monitoring area in West Pokot district in Kenya. Studies changing cultivation patterns and management of livestock
1995 -- Retires from Hunter College; Emeritus Professor
2011 -- Dies on January 29 at the age of 84
Related Materials:
For additional materials at the National Anthropological Archives relating to Francis Conant, see the papers of Priscilla Reining and John Lawrence Angel.
His film collection is at the Human Studies Film Archives.
Artifacts and film collected during the Bernheim-Conant Expedition, his doctoral research in Nigeria, and his fieldwork in Kenya during the 1960s and 70s are at the American Museum of Natural History. He also deposited collections at the Pitts River Museum at the University of Oxford.
Provenance:
These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Francis Conant's widow Veronika Conant in 2012.
Restrictions:
The Francis P. Conant Papers are open for research. Access to the Francis P. Conant Papers requires an appointment.
Francis P. Conant Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The papers of Francis P. Conant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Veronika Conant. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
This collection includes postcards from 45 African countries. Subjects include agriculture; animals; artists; body arts; cityscapes; cultural landscapes; dance; education; expeditions; flora; industry; leaders; marketplaces; medicine; military; missionaries; music; portraits; recreation; rites and ceremonies; and transportation, among many other topics.
Arrangement note:
Arranged by country and topic
Provenance:
NMAfA: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, 950 Independence Ave. S.W. 20560-0708;, Transfer;, 1985-ongoing;, 1985-0014
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Genre/Form:
Postcards
Citation:
African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Hattersley, C. W. (Charles W.) (1866-1934) Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Original caption reads "Coronation Hill. Budo." Appears in C.W. Hattersley's "The Baganda at Home." The Kabaka [king] of Buganda is enthroned on Buddo Hill or Naggalabi Buddo. It is also the location of several schools, including Kings College Budo, attended by Buganda's kings starting with Sir Daudi Chwa II.
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Kabaka [king] Daudi Chwa II with child named Stanley
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Original caption reads "King Daudi with Stanley." The king sits on a chair on a leopard skin rug with a model train engine in his lap. A small white child stands with his hands on the king's legs.
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Portrait of four kings and their prime ministers, Mengo, Kampala
Creator:
Hattersley, C. W. (Charles W.) (1866-1934) Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Mengo (Uganda)
Uganda
Date:
ca. 1909
General:
Original caption reads "Four kings and their prime ministers. Bakabaka bana, nabaharakiro babwe [in Luganda]. Appears in C.W. Hattersley's "The Baganda at Home" and postcards. The early kings of the Uganda Protectorate. Front row, from left to right: Omukama Andereya Bisereko Duhaga II of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, Kabaka Daudi Chwa II of Buganda Kingdom, Omugabe Edward Suleiman Kahaya II of Nkore Kingdom, and Omukama Daudi Kyebambe Kasagama of Toro Kingdom. Back row, from left to right: Paulo Byabichwezi, Sir Apolo Kagwa, Nuna Buguta, Mikaeri Kimbugwe.
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Portrait of Katikkiro Apolo Kagwa [Apollo Kaggwa] with his brother, sons, and nephews
Creator:
Hattersley, C. W. (Charles W.) (1866-1934) Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Original caption reads "Sir Apolo Kagwa [Apollo Kaggwa] and his brothers and their sons. Sir Apolo Kagwa, omu…ne batabani baabwe [in Luganda]." Appears in C.W. Hattersley's "The Baganda at Home."
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Original caption reads "Sir Apolo Kagwa, ne Tolasiyo." Translated from Ganda, "Sir Apolo Kagwa and Tolasiyo."
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Hattersley, C. W. (Charles W.) (1866-1934) Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
Date:
ca. 1901-1910
General:
Original caption reads "Namirembe Cathedral outside. Ekanisa enene Namirembe, Bweru [in Luganda]." This also appears as a postcard with the label "St. Paul's Cathedral." Appears in C.W. Hattersley's "The Baganda at Home."
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Hattersley, C. W. (Charles W.) (1866-1934) Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Original caption reads "Namirembe Cathedral outside. Ekanisa enene Namirembe, Bweru [in Luganda]." Ugandans leaving the cathedral in Mengo, Uganda, after a service. The congregation is summoned by a huge drum instead of a church bell. Appears in C.W. Hattersley's "The Baganda at Home."
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Hattersley, C. W. (Charles W.) (1866-1934) Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Original caption reads "Namirembe Cathedral. Inside. Ekanisa enene Namirembe, Munda [in Luganda]." Appears in C.W. Hattersley's "The Baganda at Home."
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Choir practice inside Namirembe cathedral, Kampala
Creator:
Hattersley, C. W. (Charles W.) (1866-1934) Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Original caption reads "Namirembe Cathedral. Inside. Ekanisa enene Namirembe, Munda [in Luganda]." Appears in C.W. Hattersley's "The Baganda at Home,": "Choir Practice in the Cathedral."
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English graveyard, Namirembe cathedral grounds, Kampala
Extent:
1 Photographic print (B/W)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Uganda
General:
Original caption reads "English graveyard, Namirembe Cathedral."
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Print is half ripped from the album. Half of the image shows banana trees and a building in the distance.
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