IDNO

P.48904.ACH2

Description

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

Place

S Africa; Zambia; Zimbabwe; Western Zambia; Makoma River; Barotse Province; Zambezi River; Luena River; Victoria Falls [Rhodesia; Nengo River]

Cultural Affliation

Bantu; Bamakama; Mankongwa

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 Bamakama is a cultural group from 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, figure 1, with the following caption:
“Photographs of some Bantu Tribes; Bamakoma, Mankongwa.”
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:- ...
Bamakoma.- A tribe living on the Nengo, otherwise called the Makoma River (Portuguese territory). ...
Mankongwa.- A word meaning foreigner. They were originally slaves, or immigrants into the Barotse territory, and are therefore of uncertain, probably mixed descent. They live on the central portion of that Luena River which runs into the Zambesi close to Lealui. (Luena is a common name for a river.).” [Source: www.jstor.org, JD 19/10/2009]