European home in Africa
56 x 56 mm | Negative film nitrate
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous PRM Number:
JB.19.16
Accession Number:
1998.97.581
Description:
The interior of an unidentified colonial home, possibly in Kenya or Uganda, although it is uncertain when or if Buxton visited either country.
The central subject of the image is the modernist display cabinet set against the interior wall which incorporates a series of apertures, two of which incorporate windows, into which selected works of African art have been inserted for display.
To the right of the display a conventional oil painting of an English landscape hangs on the wall.
Photographer:
Jean Carlile Buxton
Date of Photo:
1950 - 1952
Group:
European English
PRM Source:
Ronald Carlile Buxton via Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Acquired:
Donated 1988
Other Owners:
Jean Buxton Collection
Class:
Furnishings , Colonial , Shelter , Carving
Keyword:
Building House
Documentation:
See Related Documents File. Buxton field notebooks in Tylor Library.
Recorder:
Christopher Morton 24/5/2005 [Southern Sudan Project]
