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Title: A traditional healer
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Older people--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Women--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: Portrait of a traditional healer. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5565

Title: Traditional-style long hut (ikibaga)
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Huts--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: A traditional-style long hut (ikibaga). Photograph taken at Rungwe Mission Station.
Identifier: islandora:5571

Title: The traditional freight carrier, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railroads, Transport, Infrastructure, Railroad trains
Description: SA Railways / The traditional freight carrier in South Africa is the railway network, which reaches, together with its road motor services, into almost every town and village. It dominates the transport scene in this country, and unlike many oversea rail concerns, seems to be destined to do so for many years to come.
Identifier: islandora:16133

Title: Traditional Venda dance
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Venda girls lay down as part of a traditional dance held under the area of Chief Kennedy Tshivhase. Venda, Tshivhase, Limpopo Province, South Africa. 3 February 2001
Identifier: islandora:7163

Title: Traditional Xhosa wedding ceremony, Cape Town
Subject: Langa (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Weddings, Township, Traditions, Xhosa (African people), Urbanisation
Description: Some of the horseman who took part in the colourful umkhwelo amahashe ("We go with the horses") ceremony at Langa yesterday. It was part of the three-day wedding celebrations of Miss Beauty Makwela and Mr. Bulumko Msengane.
Identifier: islandora:15859

Title: Bride arrives for the traditional part of her wedding
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Northern KwaZulu-Natal. Nompumelelo Mkhwanazi arrives for the traditional part of her wedding in the Shembe or Nazareth Baptist Church wedding at the homestead of the groom. 1999.
Identifier: islandora:7328

Title: The ritual objects of a traditional healer
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Healers--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: The ritual objects of a traditional healer. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5667

Title: Traditional fishing, Paternoster, Western Cape
Subject: Traditional fishing--South Africa--Paternoster, Small-scale fisheries--South Africa--Paternoster, Fishing nets--South Africa--Paternoster,
Description: Small-scale fishermen fishing with a net off the coast of Paternoster in the Western Cape.
Identifier: islandora:5226

Title: Nyakyusa men in traditional attire
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Clothing
Description: Two portraits superimposed. Both portraits are of Nyakyusa men in traditional attire, positioned in front of the anthropologists' tent and a traditional hut respectively. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5584

Title: Traditional 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 traditional beer-drink. Note the traditional beer basket.
Identifier: islandora:5431

Title: Woman doing traditional dance, Transkei, South Africa
Subject: Transkei (South Africa)—Rural conditions, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa—Social conditions, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa, Women—South Africa, Children—South Africa,
Description: A Xhosa woman does a traditional dance surrounded by a clapping crowd from the Xhosa community of Transkei, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18266

Title: A traditional elder
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Older people--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: Portrait of a traditional elder. Photograph taken sometime between November and December 1934 by Godfrey Wilson, as a lone anthropologist during his first five months of fieldwork (August-December 1934)
Identifier: islandora:5614

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: Traditional hut
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Huts--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: A traditional hut. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5639

Title: Himba tradition
Subject: traditional dress, traditional lifestyle, celebrationHimba (African people)--Social life and customs, Himba (African people)--Clothing--Namibia, Women
Description: Himba women in traditional dress dancing.
Identifier: islandora:8215

Title: Traditional life
Subject: circumcision ceremonyCircumcision--Africa, Southern, Xhosa (African people)--Social life and customs, Young adults--South Africa
Description: An initiate undergoes a traditional, tribal initiation process.
Identifier: islandora:8273

Title: Xhosa man wearing traditional headdress, Transkei, South Africa
Subject: Transkei (South Africa)—Rural conditions, Xhosa (African people)—South Africa, Men—South Africa,
Description: A portrait of a Xhosa man wearing a traditional headdress in Transkei, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18265

Title: Traditional fishing, South Africa, Western Cape
Subject: Traditional fishing--South Africa--PaternosterSmall-scale fisheries--South Africa--Paternoster,
Description: Small-scale fishermen heading back to shore, Paternoster, Western Cape.
Identifier: islandora:5232

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