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Title: Hottentots - Street Scene
Subject: Khoikhoi (African people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Cape Town street scene showing one man with a bottle in his hand, who appears to be under the influence of alcohol, with two women, one of whom is smoking a pipe, watching the man, with a third woman asleep at the edge of the road beneath a wall on which appear various notices, one of which is about a meeting of the Temperance Society. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26371

Title: Tom Tom dance - Mozambiques and Mixed race
Subject: Musicians--South Africa--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Extreme left, two musicians, a woman playing a small drum and a man playing a stringed instrument, left of centre and centre two figures dancing, right of centre is a seated figure next to a fire with a cooking pot on it, and right are two seated women. In the background is a typical "kapstylhuis". Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26400

Title: Coolies - Market Squares
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Group of three men resting on the steps of a building, (possibly in Greenmarket Square). An ox-waggon is depicted in the background. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26382

Title: Fruiterers
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Cape Town street scene showing two women seated on the side of the street, left foreground, and two Malay fruit sellers with baskets suspended from poles held across their shoulders. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26380

Title: Carbonatji Tents - Market square
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Depicts a group of Malays' partaking of refreshments under a large umbrella-like shelter. Location possibly Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26381

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