IDNO

P.48903.ACH2

Description

A three-quarter length seated profile portrait of two men holding placards annotated with their cultural group identification; the first on the left from Mankoya and the man on the right from Batutela. A corrugated iron building, possibly a government building?, is in the background. [JD 19/10/2009]

Place

S Africa; Zambia; Zimbabwe; Western Zambia; Mankoya; Victoria Falls [Rhodesia]

Cultural Affliation

Bantu; Mankoya; Batutela

Named Person

Photographer

Hartland, Ethel (Miss)

Collector / Expedition

Hartland, E. Sidney [The British Association South African Meeting, 1905]

Date

1905

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in envelope now marked C157/2/4/. This envelope was found in drawer 2 of the green cabinet. The entire cabinet was previously numbered as “batch 143” and is now re-numbered C157/ by the transcriber.

Related Archive: The cover page (proof copy) of a book “Specimens of Bushman Folklore” collected by the Late W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd. Published by George Allen and company, London.; and two pages of photographs annotated in Haddon’s handwriting- “Stow- the native Races of S. Africa” were found with the set. See archive reference.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Africa; ?South Africa”, but the series has been identified as being taken at Victoria Falls, and Mankoya is in Western Zambia. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 16/10/2009]

Publication: Image published in ‘35. Notes on Some South African Tribes’ by E. Sidney Hartland, in ‘Man’, Vol. 7, (1907), pp. 49-50, plate D, with the following caption:
“Photographs of some Bantu Tribes; Mankoya, Batutela.”
With the following text on p.49:
“When the British Association met in South Africa in 1905 specimens of several Bantu tribes were kindly brought together at the Victoria Falls by the Government of Rhodesia for anthropological study. Time was short, and only admitted of a few measurements and photographs. The following is a list of the tribes represented, and the accompanying plate is from photographs taken by Miss Hartland:- ...
Mankoya.- A tribe 250 miles north-west of the Falls. ...
Batutela.- A tribe dwelling to the south of the Mankoya, between them and the Machili River. They are noted ironworkers, making all the hoes and axes fot the neighbouring tribes.” [Source: www.jstor.org, JD 19/10/2009]