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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: 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: Drosanthemum candens (Haw.) Schwantes
Subject: South Africa--Western Cape, Province of the--Cape Town, Aizoaceae--South Africa--Western Cape, Botany--South Africa--Western Cape--Pictorial works, Vygie
Description: Botanical illustration - coloured - Drosanthemum candens (Haw.) Schwantes. Dissected drawing of flower included plus attached capsule. Bolus Herbarium 17446; drawn from a collection made at Sea Point, Kalk Bay, etc. [Cape District]. Rocks at sea edge.
Identifier: islandora:244

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: Table Bay and Cape Town, from the foot of Table Mountain
Subject: Table Bay (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Shows Cape Town and Table Bay beyond, from a vantage point on Table Mountain. There is shipping in Table Bay and Bloubergstrand can be seen in the distance. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26366

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