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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: 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: Women of the Mose clan carrying beer for the feast of ukunikela emlanjeni
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Women of the Mose clan carrying beer for the feast of ukunikela emlanjeni., Missing negative (a).
Identifier: islandora:5703

Title: A Christian family
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania, Tanzania--Rural conditions, Family life, Christian family
Description: Portrait of a Christian family. Photograph taken in Mwaya sometime between October and November 1934 by Godfrey Wilson, as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Identifier: islandora:5615

Title: Sipho drinking beer ritually at the kraal gate
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--South Africa--Pondoland
Description: Sipho drinking beer ritually at the kraal gate., Missing negative (a).
Identifier: islandora:5702

Title: A Christian family
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania, Tanzania--Rural conditions, Family life, Christian family
Description: Portrait of a Christian family. Photograph taken in Mwaya sometime between October and November 1934 by Godfrey Wilson, as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Identifier: islandora:5621

Title: Leaping on a newly-filled grave
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Young men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and cust
Description: Leaping on a newly-filled grave. This photograph depicts the same ritual event as seen in: Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. Plate 2.
Identifier: islandora:5507

Title: Dancing at a beer-drink
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: Dancing at a beer-drink. This photograph depicts the same event as seen in: Reaction to conquest: effects of contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. London : H. Milford, Pub. for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by the Oxford University Press, 1936. Plate XXIb.
Identifier: islandora:5384

Title: Divination with porridge
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: Divination with porridge.
Identifier: islandora:5544

Title: Diviner 'smelling out'
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: Diviner 'smelling out'. This photograph depicts the same event as seen in: Reaction to conquest: effects of contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. London : H. Milford, Pub. for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by the Oxford University Press, 1936. Plate ?
Identifier: islandora:5484

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., Missing negative (a).
Identifier: islandora:5707

Title: Leaping on a newly-filled grave
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Young men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and cust
Description: Leaping on a newly-filled grave. This photograph depicts the same ritual event as seen in: Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. Plate 2.
Identifier: islandora:5508

Title: Leonard Mwaisumo and wife
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Family life, Huts--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: Monica and Godfrey Wilson's research assistant, Leonard Mwaisumo, with his wife. Mwaisumo acted as research assistant for the Wilsons from September 1934 to November 1935. Photograph taken by Godfrey Wilson in September 1934, as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Identifier: islandora:5649

Title: Family portrait
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Children--South Africa--Eastern Cape, Family life
Description: Portrait of family of "school people".
Identifier: islandora:5457

Title: Social event
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs, Umbrellas--South Africa--Eastern Cape
Description: Social event. Notice the use of the sun-umbrella, a status symbol in rural areas.
Identifier: islandora:5438

Title: Leaping on a newly-filled grave
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Young men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and cust
Description: Leaping on a newly-filled grave. This photograph depicts the same ritual event as seen in: Rituals of kinship among the Nyakyusa. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. Plate 2.
Identifier: islandora:5509

Title: Ukumoga dance at a marriage feast
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and customs, Young women--Tanzania--Rungwe Di
Description: Display - The ukumoga dance at a marriage feast. A woman in the foreground is wearing the traditional brass body-rings.
Identifier: islandora:5531

Title: Smoking a pipe
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Older people--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondo (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: Portrait of an elderly Pondo man smoking a pipe.
Identifier: islandora:5473

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: Dancing at a beer-drink. This photograph depicts the same event as seen in: Reaction to conquest: effects of contact with Europeans on the Pondo of South Africa. London : H. Milford, Pub. for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by the Oxford University Press, 1936. Plate XXIb.
Identifier: islandora:5425

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