IDNO

P.48906.ACH2

Description

A three-quarter length seated frontal portrait of two Batoka men holding placards annotated with their cultural group identification. A corrugated iron building, possibly a government building?, is in the background. [JD 19/10/2009]

Place

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

Cultural Affliation

Bantu; Batoka

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, plate D, with the following caption:
“Photographs of some Bantu Tribes; Batoka.”
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:- ...
Batoka.- A tribe inhabiting the high plateau approximately 100 miles north and north-east of the Falls. Colour, black. This tribe does not practice circumcision.” [Source: www.jstor.org, JD 19/10/2009]