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Title: Minstrel at Coon Carnival, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Happiness is a coon carnival. The joy of this troupe member was captured at Hartleyvale today by Argus photographer Mike Duff.
Identifier: islandora:15324

Title: Boy sits on minstrel's shoulders, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Delight is a big shoulder to sit on, a cheerful song and a whistle to blow on for this little fellow, a patient at Maitland Cottage Home for Cripple Children. He is six-year-old Bulelane Mehlomakube and the man with the big song is Boere Goosen of Nik Naks Cooning Minstrels who was one of a group of 34 Hanover Park entertainers who performed to raise money for the centre. The group is to give a repeat performance early in the New Year.
Identifier: islandora:15322

Title: Art Class, Cape Town
Subject: Recreation areas, Art, ,
Description: A different kind of drawing-room - CAP (Community Arts Project) art class underway.
Identifier: islandora:15434

Title: Choir performs at the Cape Malay Choir Board's competition at the Green Point Stadium during Nautical Week, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Musicians, Performing arts, ,
Description: [Me]mbers of the Rosebuds choir team singing [en]thusiastically in the finals of [th]e Cape Malay Choir Board's horal competition at the Green Point Stadium last night, organised as part of the programme for Nautical Week this year.
Identifier: islandora:15172

Title: The Sentrale Singkoor, developers of the folk song, perform in Cape Town, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Musicians, Performing arts, Folk singers, ,
Description: An early picture of the Sentrale Singkoor which was largely responsible for the development of the folk song in Cape Town. Choir leader Rasdien Cornelis, born in 1867, is third from the left in the middle row, with assistant Suleiman on his right.
Identifier: islandora:15176

Title: Traditional Nyakyusa house decoration
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Interior decoration--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Art, African
Description: House decoration. Traditional art of the Nyakyusa. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5563

Title: Member of the Manenberg Darkie Minstrels, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: This gentleman with elastic face was ... In the Manenberg Darkie Minstrels tro[upe].
Identifier: islandora:15326

Title: Man plays on his guitar while choir performs in background, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Musicians, Performing arts, ,
Description: Man plays on his guitar while choir performs in background, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:15177

Title: Minstrels perform at Coon Carnival Finals, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Part of the colourful march past at Goodwood Showgrounds at the beginning of Saturday's Coon Carnival finals.
Identifier: islandora:15330

Title: Men playing musical instruments to songs sung by Caledonian Roses Choir, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Malay, Musicians, Performing arts, ,
Description: Right: Members of the band give musical support to the songs by the Caledonian Roses Choir.
Identifier: islandora:15174

Title: Minstrel from the Jolly Johnson troupe, Cape Town
Subject: Entertainers, Performing arts, Amusements, ,
Description: Coon Carnival troupes gyrate through the city: Heppy Nuwe Djaar, says Achmat Adams, of the Jolly Johnson Troupe, at the Coon Carnival at Hartleyvale today. This picture was taken by staff photographer Dana Le Roux after the gaily dressed troupes had marched exuberantly through the streets of the city on their way to the carnivals at Hartleyvale and Athlone.
Identifier: islandora:15323

Title: Craft sale
Subject: Art, African, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Zimbabwean craft sellers, Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 2006
Identifier: islandora:7255

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