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Title: Family on front stoep of their home, South Africa
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions, South Africa--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa, Women--South Africa,
Description: Three men and a woman stand on the front stoep of a home in South Africa. One man holds a rifle gun.
Identifier: islandora:18627

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi at Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Pieter, Koper, Jan, Khomani language, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Pieter Vaalbooi, Jan Koper and Nigel Crawhall discuss local history
Identifier: islandora:31480

Title: Carte de l'ile de Madagascar contenant sa description & diverses particularitez curieuses de ses habitans tant blancs que negres
Subject: Madagascar -- Maps -- Early works to 1800., Madagascar -- Social life and customs$$y18th century.
Description: The map, showing Madagascar oriented with north to the right, is featured at the top of the page. Below the map is text (in French) describing the island of Madagascar and its people. Bordering the page are illustrations depicting life and customs in Madagascar including circumcision, funerals and executions as well as illustrating various modes of attire., Appears in Atlas historique, ou, Nouvelle introduction à l'histoire ... Amsterdam, 1705-1720. Tome VI, no. 34, p. 142.
Identifier: islandora:19693

Title: Three women at a formal event, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Subject: Women--South Africa, South Africa—Social life and customs—20th century,
Description: Three women pose for a portrait at a formal event in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18450

Title: Man holding walking stick, England
Subject: England--Social life and customs, Men--England,
Description: A man dressed in a black robe and hat sits on a chair next to a collection box that reads, 'CHAT TOURS', England.
Identifier: islandora:18658

Title: Traditional herders on a mountain, Lesotho
Subject: Lesotho--Social conditions, Lesotho--Social life and customs, Zulu (African people)--Lesotho,
Description: Traditional herders on a mountain in Lesotho.
Identifier: islandora:18628

Title: Great Trek Commemoration, Uitenhage, South Africa
Subject: South Africa-- History--Great Trek, 1836-1840--Anniversaries, etc., Role playing, Political history--South Africa--Pretoria, Afrikaners--Social life and customs
Description: Commemoration of the Afrikaners' Great Trek, Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa, December 1988.
Identifier: islandora:5353

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi, Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi and Nigel Crawhall in a conversation discussing local history, with particular reference to a time during World War II
Identifier: islandora:31474

Title: |Xam woman dipping up water
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26886

Title: Petrus Vaalbooi explains the history and significance of the N|uu language
Subject: Vaalbooi, Petrus ; N|uu language, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani language, San (African people)--Languages, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Petrus Vaalbooi, a former chairperson of the San Council and a member of the Community Property Association. He was one of the first community members to go overseas to promote the Land Claims process.Petrus worked alongside his mother, Elsie Vaalbooi, to locate other N|uu speakers in the townships in and around Upington, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:27134

Title: Sana Gooi
Subject: Gooi, Sana, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--South Africa--Northern Cape, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Sana Gooi is Lukas Bok's cousin. She remembers calling him Lukas viertien (fourteen) because he was so tall.
Identifier: islandora:27079

Title: Addey and Karen, Johannesburg
Subject: Leisure time--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa, Social life and customs--South Africa,
Description: Addey and Karen getting close during Sunday lunch at Laurienne and Ian's home in north Johannesburg, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:1407

Title: Language transcriptions and translations of ǂKhomani San Brody Archive, Elsie and Petrus Vaalbooi, Rietfontein
Subject: Vaalbooi, Elsie, Khomani (African people)--History, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi and Nigel Crawhall in a conversation discussing local history, with particular reference to a time during World War II where there was contact with German prisoners of war
Identifier: islandora:31473

Title: Ritual dance of novice and amagqira
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Clothing, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: Ritual dance of novice and amagqira.
Identifier: islandora:5414

Title: Beer-drink
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs, Pondo (African people)--Clothing
Description: A beer-drink out of doors.
Identifier: islandora:5423

Title: Playing games along river, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Leisure time--South Africa, Social life and customs--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa,
Description: Andrew, Addey and Ian (from L to R) play Pooh Sticks during a picnic at a river north of Johannesburg, 1989.
Identifier: islandora:1410

Title: Elsie Vaalbooi and Petrus Vaalbooi's home
Subject: San (African people)--South Africa--Noenieput, Khomani (African people)--South Africa--Noenieput, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, San (African people)--Dwellings, Khomani (African people)--Dwellings, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Elsie Vaalbooi and Petrus Vaalbooi's home in Noenieput, South Africa. Around 1964, Elsie Vaalbooi moved in with Petrus where he had a job at the Farmers Co-operative.
Identifier: islandora:27087

Title: Hostel burial society march, Malmesbury, Western Cape
Subject: Malmesbury (South Africa)--Social life and customsBurial insurance--South Africa--Malmesbury, Funeral rites and customs--South Africa,
Description: A march of members of a hostel burial society in Malmsebury in the Western Cape. They are carrying a placard which reads "Masingwa Bane Buffelsdoring Burial".
Identifier: islandora:5259

Title: Grave of an unidentified park ranger within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Subject: San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Tombs--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Landscapes--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: The grave of an unidentified ranger who died of malaria. The grave is fenced in to protect it from animals and vehicles which may damage it. Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.
Identifier: islandora:26988

Title: Before Frances and Graeme's wedding, Cape Town
Subject: Weddings--South Africa, Social life and customs--South Africa, City dwellers--South Africa,
Description: Frances waits at the Cape Town Magistrates Court for her wedding ceremony to begin, 1992. From left to right, Tessa (Frances' mother), Ann (Graeme's mother), Frances' friend and witness, Terry.
Identifier: islandora:1389

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