IDNO

P.7384.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Pondoland. An “idikazi” at a dance

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Pondoland

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Hunter, Monica (later Hunter Wilson, Monica)

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1931

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Wilson, Monica (nee Hunter, Monica)

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Context: The word 'idikazi' is a Xhosa word meaning an unmarried woman of childbearing age. The word is considered offensive in mainstream Xhosa. [Source: www.xhosadictionary.com, Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/9/2013]

Source: A letter from Monica Wilson, dated 3rd June 1936, to Louis Clark regarding the enclosure of African negatives (and the future sending of additional Pondo and Tanganyika negatives) for the African Photograph Collection is amongst the Haddon Photo Papers, W06/1/14. [JD 1/5/2016]