Search results

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:5567

Title: Grinding mealies
Subject: Pondo (African people), Ethnology--South Africa--Pondoland, Eastern Cape (South Africa)--Rural conditions, Mother and child--South Africa--Pondoland, Pondo (African people)--Agriculture
Description: Grinding mealies. 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 XIIa.
Identifier: islandora:5406

Title: Standing at attention
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, removal, army, soldier, huts, tent, !Xun, Khwe, Kxoe (African people)--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, San (African people)--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, Soldiers--South Africa--Schmidtsdrift, Schmidtsdrift (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:12230

Title: Queuing
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, indigenous, San, queue, line, man, woman, child, baby, hat, women, men, San (African people)--Namibia--Politics and government, Voting--Namibia, Namibia
Description: San men and women standing in a queue, waiting for the United Nations mobile election unit. One woman has a small child on her back. Auru, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:12103

Title: San elder
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, San, indigenous, elder, talking, land rights, San (African people)--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Rural elderly--Botswana--Ghanzi District, Ghanzi District (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:12293

Title: Protest by Blue Downs residents, Cape Town
Subject: Blue Downs (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Banking, Coloured people (South Africa), Demonstrations
Description: The Downs Blues: Hundreds of placard-wielding Blue Downs residents march through the streets to protest against soaring repayments on their homes
Identifier: islandora:16880

Title: Demba
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Lemba (African people)--Music
Description: Height: 237mm (9.1in), Diameter: 371mm (14.6in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20693

Title: Walking through the veld
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, hunter, guitar, bow, San, indigenous, queue, tool, work, tradition, man, San (African people)--Namibia, Otjozondjupa (Namibia)
Description: A group of people walk behind each other along a path through the veld. The man in front carries a stick and a bow. Bushmanland, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:11703

Title: Members of the San community share their knowledge and memories with researchers, Print # 91
Subject: Rooi, |Una ; Brou, Kheis ; Koper, |Abaka ;, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Women--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: Three elders, |Una Rooi, Kheis Brou and |Abaka Koper, point in different directions to show points of interest or importance in the past.
Identifier: islandora:27196

Title: Elderly man in a muti store, Mai Mai market, Johannesburg, South Africa
Subject: Men--South Africa--Johannesburg, Older people--South Africa--Johannesburg, Markets--South Africa--Johannesburg, Traditional healers--South Africa--Johannesburg
Description: An elderly man stands amongst goods for traditional healing in a muti store at the Mai Mai market in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Identifier: islandora:18587

Title: Dzhio
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Height: 22mm, Width: 20mm, Length: 124mm, Place of production: Fundudzi, Lake (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20060

Title: Married women praying
Subject: Shembe Church ; Zulu (African people)--Religion, Marinovich african spirituality
Description: Ekupakameni, KwaZulu-Natal. Married women pray at 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.
Identifier: islandora:7275

Title: Oral history inteview with Mrs Kafoerah Dollie [ Part 2 of 2]
Subject: Forced removals, Oral history, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--History, District Six (Cape Town, South Africa)--Social conditions, Colored people (South Africa)--Relocation--South Africa--Cape Town, Dollie, Kafoerah
Description: District Six refers to a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town, South Africa. It is best known for the forced removal of over 60 000 of its residents by the apartheid government. This extensive sub-collection contains interviews from various projects conducted between 1985 and 2002. The majority of interviewees resided or worked in District Six prior to being forcibly removed. Themes include: children, the Coon Carnival, crime, resident’s experiences of relocation, gangs, household arrangements, jazz, marriage, mixed marriages across racial lines, music, nostalgia, recreation, religion, schooling, social and racial issues and work., Cwc2.50b.mp3: Part 2 of 2 ; 21:36 min. ; interview 50 of 208
Identifier: islandora:18824

Title: Ukumoga dance at a funeral
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Nyakyusa (African people)--Rites and ceremonies, Men--Tanzania--Rungwe District
Description: A men's ukumoga dance at a funeral. This photograph depicts the same ritual event as seen in: Good company: a study of Nyakyusa age villages. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. Plate XIV. Photograph taken by Monica Wilson during joint fieldwork at different periods from April 1935-December 1937.
Identifier: islandora:5672

Title: Studio portrait of Zulu woman
Subject: Women--South Africa, Girls--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--South Africa, Zulu (African people)--South Africa--Clothing,
Description: A Zulu woman dressed in traditional clothing poses on set for a studio portrait.
Identifier: islandora:18326

Title: Stooping to greet a man
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people), Ethnology--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Rungwe District (Tanzania)--Rural conditions, Women--Tanzania--Rungwe District, Nyakyusa (African people)--Social life and customs
Description: Ndimboni, a Christian woman, stooping to greet a man. Photograph taken at Rungwe Mission Station.
Identifier: islandora:5522

Title: Milk bag
Subject: Musical instruments--Botswana, Tswana (African people)--Music
Description: Height: 150mm (6in), Width: 308mm (11.8in), Height: 553mm (21.7in), Place of production: Ramotswa (Botswana)
Identifier: islandora:20224

Title: Hunter with spring hare
Subject: Bushman, Namibia, hunting, man, bush, bow, animal, San (African people)--Hunting--Namibia, Bowhunting--Namibia, San (African people)--Food--Namibia, Hunting and gathering societies--Namibia, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12387

Title: Dzhio
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.11 Open single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Height: 22mm, Width: 20mm, Length: 124mm, Place of production: Fundudzi, Lake (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20059

Title: |Xam man dressing a skin
Subject: San (African people)--Africa, Southern, San (African people)--Africa, Southern--Pictorial works, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Men--Africa, Southern, Hunting and gathering societies--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: This image was included in Alfred Martin Duggan Cronin's The Bantu tribes of South Africa : reproductions of photographic studies, the outcome of his major ethnographic research study of the San of Southern African.
Identifier: islandora:26892

Share