START 10:00:15 Filmed from their small fishing boat, Ugandan fishermen cast a net in shallow water on Lake Victoria. A woman purchases fish for cash. Back on shore, teams of fishermen haul in nets and collect flat fish and a local breed of eel (?). A dog leaps out of the water. Freshly-caught fish are placed in round straw trays ready for sale.

10:04:07 A tribal gathering in a village in Uganda. Women wearing European dresses dance separately from the men. Male drummers, including one man who has dyed his hair and moustache in a pale colour and has decorated his head with beads and necklaces, provide the rhythm for several warriors clad in leopard skins and ostrich feathers who perform a traditional dance. In additional to the drummers, a man uses an instrument similar in appearance to a European violin bow to play an African tube fiddle known locally as an 'endingidi' as he sings. A percussionist seated nearby beats time on a metal ring with a steel pin. Children watch the male warriors wearing ostrich feathers on their heads dancing. A woman dances about holding a rolled-up umbrella. Another musician plays what looks like the local equivalent of the tuba. Young women wearing skirts like ballet tutus perform their own dance. Older, more mature warriors clutching shields and spears and wearing huge ostrich feathers on their heads perform a dance in which one of them repeatedly thrusts his spear into the ground. Several women tag onto the end of a line of dancing warriors. A young boy leads a goat by the horns.

10:09:59 An African cattle owner wearing a jacket raises his solar topee as he speaks to somebody standing next to the camera. Behind him, his cattle, an African long-horn breed known as Watusi, are grazing. Cattle and goats are herded into a traditional animal enclosure.

10:11:29 An African tribal elder (?) wearing an Arab fez and a double-breasted jacket talks to somebody next to the cameraman. A line of young men, some wearing European clothes, others with naked torsos decorated in pale spot patterns, perform their dance. Local musicians play on drums and a local version of the flute (a long hollow cane). Another musician plays the 'endingidi'. Male dancers, some wearing ostrich feathers tied to a head band, others wearing headgear that looks similar to fur busbys, also have white spots painted onto their faces and white markings on their legs. The musician with the 'endingidi' sings as he plays.

10:12:35 At the site of a large acacia tree growing next to a school building (?), male and female members of a clan take part in a communal dance. Some of the men wear headgear similar in appearance to fur busbys and have decorated their legs with white markings. END 10:14:58

Ugandan inshore fishermen in Lake Victoria. Tribal dancing in Uganda.

Notes

Summary: John Wernham recorded audio commentary over this film on 14 May 1992.

Remarks: This material, together with the rest of Wernham's film record of his time in East Africa, constitutes a valuable and possibly unique pictorial record at this time in the region's colonial history.