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Title: Hottentots - Street Scene
Subject: Khoikhoi (African people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Cape Town street scene showing one man with a bottle in his hand, who appears to be under the influence of alcohol, with two women, one of whom is smoking a pipe, watching the man, with a third woman asleep at the edge of the road beneath a wall on which appear various notices, one of which is about a meeting of the Temperance Society. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26371

Title: Tom Tom dance - Mozambiques and Mixed race
Subject: Musicians--South Africa--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Extreme left, two musicians, a woman playing a small drum and a man playing a stringed instrument, left of centre and centre two figures dancing, right of centre is a seated figure next to a fire with a cooking pot on it, and right are two seated women. In the background is a typical "kapstylhuis". Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26400

Title: Hottentot Hutt - on tree, Nest of Republican Birds
Subject: South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Country scene showing a woman with a baby on her back, sitting on an ox which is being led by a man towards a woman with an umbrella, and a hut set beside some trees. There are two figures and a dog outside the hut, and a bird's nest in the tree with several birds (probably sociable weavers) flying around it. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26383

Title: Malay Fishermen
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, Fishers--South Africa--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Seated Malay woman in left foreground with standing figure of Malay fisherman, centre foreground, two fishermen in background. Sea and mountain in background.
Identifier: islandora:26391

Title: Country Hottentots, Travelling
Subject: Khoikhoi (African people) in art, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Depicts a Khoikhoi family travelling: a man, a woman with a baby on her back and a small child walking behind, and two dogs running ahead of the party. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26373

Title: Travelling Bullock Waggon
Subject: Wagons in art, Transportation--South Africa--History--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Shows covered waggon with two Malay men sitting up front and six oxen drawing the vehicle. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26401

Title: Coolies - Market Squares
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Group of three men resting on the steps of a building, (possibly in Greenmarket Square). An ox-waggon is depicted in the background. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26382

Title: Malay Fishermen
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Seated Malay woman in left foreground with standing figure of Malay fisherman centre foreground and two fishermen in background. Sea and Mountain in background. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26378

Title: Fruiterers
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Cape Town street scene showing two women seated on the side of the street, left foreground, and two Malay fruit sellers with baskets suspended from poles held across their shoulders. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26380

Title: Carbonatji Tents - Market square
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Depicts a group of Malays' partaking of refreshments under a large umbrella-like shelter. Location possibly Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26381

Title: Malay Family
Subject: Malays (Asian people) in art, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Group depicting a man, a woman and a small child, with Cape mountains in the background. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26376

Title: Hottentots - Country Scene
Subject: Khoikhoi (African people) in art, South Africa--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Depicts three men and three women drinking and fighting. One woman has a baby on her back. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26372

Title: Travelling in South Africa
Subject: Wagons in art, Transportation--South Africa--History--Pictorial works, South Africa--Social life and customs, South Africa--In art
Description: Depicts an ox-waggon in rough mountainous country approaching a river, in centre foreground. A man in a blue shirt with a long-handled whip is urging the oxen onwards, while at the back of the waggon two men appear to be hanging onto restraining ropes to prevent the waggon from turning over. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26397

Title: Common travelling horse waggons
Subject: Wagons in art, Transportation--South Africa--History--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Waggon, with passengers seated within under a canopy, drawn by twelve horses across a plain with mountains in the background. Title taken from original painting.
Identifier: islandora:26370

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