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Title: Double-skin hourglass-shaped drum with beater (possibly Hausa)
Subject: Musical instruments--Africa, West, Hausa (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 211.242.11 Individual double-skin hourglass-shaped drums, one skin used for playing, Place of production: Africa, West, Probably Hausa
Identifier: islandora:20631

Title: Ugbhu
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.121.221 Mono-heterochord musical bows with resonator without tuning noose, Height: 150mm (5.9in), Width: 233mm (9.1in), Length: 1124mm, Place of production: Nongoma (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20755

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: Mother carrying child and wood
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Mother and child--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Fuelwood gatherers--Tanzania--Rungwe Di
Description: Portrait of a mother carrying her child on her back and wood on her head. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5591

Title: Pilgrimage to the holy mountain Nhlangakazi
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. Vangeli or evangelists from the church leadership lead a 100,000 pilgrims leave the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe on a three day barefoot march to the holy mountain Nhlangakazi. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture.
Identifier: islandora:7317

Title: /Ka/kanasi
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, San (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 3 Chordophone with resonator, A. Height: 16mm (0.4in), Width: 20mm (0.8in), Length: 97mm (3.5in), B. Height: 9mm (0.1in), Width: 9mm (0.1in), Length: 92mm (3.5in), Place of production: Twee Rivieren (Northern Cape, South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20674

Title: An examination of the physical type of the people of South Eastern Nigeria with special reference to their crania
Subject: Igbo (African people)--Craniology, Jones, G. I.--Correspondence, Wells, Lawrence Herbert, 1908-1980--Correspondence
Description: Typed letter to Lawrence Wells about a project referring to cranial data from the University of the Witwatersrand. Wells provided guidance and the copy of the project was sent to him in return.
Identifier: islandora:27460

Title: Placing flowers on the graves of the church forebears
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. Young members of the AmaNazaretha or Nazareth Baptist Church place flowers on the graves of the church forebears at a cemetery near their headquarters. 26 July 1998.
Identifier: islandora:7344

Title: Pan African Congress (PAC) supporters, Cape Town
Subject: Pan Africanist Congress, Politics, Azanian People's Liberation Army, Demonstrations, ,
Description: Sticking to their guns: Azania People's Liberation Army (APLA) cadres on the march at yesterday's Gugulethu rally.
Identifier: islandora:15681

Title: Mahimba women
Subject: supporters, traditional dressElections--Namibia--1989, Himba (African people)--Clothing--Namibia, Women
Description: Himba women supporting the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA).
Identifier: islandora:8218

Title: Funeral ceremony
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal. Church members hold a funeral ceremony at a cemetery near the headquarters of the Nazareth Baptist Church, or Shembe. Shembe is a staunchly traditionalist Zulu cult that was founded in 1913 by Isaiah Shembe after a vision. Their beliefs are a mix of Old and New Testament and the ancestral veneration of traditional Zulu culture. 26 July 1998.
Identifier: islandora:7281

Title: Dithleka
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, A. Length: 105mm (3.9in), Diameter: 47mm (1.6in), B. Length: 97mm (3.5in), Diameter: 43mm (1.6in), C. Length: 92mm (3.5in), Diameter: 40mm (1.6in), D. Height: 10mm (0.4in), Width: 13mm (0.4in), Length: 121mm (4.7in), String: Length: 565mm (22in), Diameter: 2mm (0.1in), E. Height: 19mm (0.4in), Width: 17mm (0.4in), Length: 95mm (3.5in), F. Height: 24mm (0.8in), Width: 14mm (0.4in), Length: 107mm (3.9in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20131

Title: Tsula ya noko
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Pedi (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.112 Sets of end-blown flutes or panpipes, Place of production: Transvaal (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20862

Title: Luhepu Kaheke at home
Subject: Bushman, San, South Africa, indigenous, identity, ritual, land rights, art, crafts, army, dispossession, family, man, woman, baby, house, steps, portrait, Artists--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--South Africa--Northern Cape, San (African people)--Family relationships, Northern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12500

Title: Amina Vallie, 1996
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Social conditions, Portraits, Bedrooms--South Africa, Older people--South Africa, Muslim women--South Africa, Islamic clothing and dress--South Africa,
Description: Zubeida Vallie's mother, Amina "Mum" Vallie (n�e Patel), October 1996.
Identifier: islandora:12664

Title: Dinaka (set of seven)
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Pedi (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Height: 14mm (0.4in), Width: 94mm (3.5in), Length: 149mm (5.5in), Place of production: Polokwane (South Africa), Creator: 'The son of a Transvaal Sotho doctor' (Kirby 1968:162)
Identifier: islandora:20148

Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20787

Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20793

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: Interior of a hut
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Implements, utensils, etc.--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: The interior of a hut showing the men's side.
Identifier: islandora:5487

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