IDNO

P.7434.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Initiation ceremony “Mawaiwai” - those that make that sound. Bavenda at Sibasa, N. Transvaal

The two male youths undergoing initiation, and wearing initiation costumes made of reeds. [Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/16/2013]

Place

S Africa; South Africa; northern Transvaal; Sibasa

Cultural Affliation

Venda [historically Bavenda]

Named Person

Photographer

Duggan-Cronin, Alfred Martin

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1919 - 1939

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Mogg, Joseph William (Archdeacon)Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information