IDNO

P.56141.ACH2

Description

Portrait of an older Zulu woman, a Sangoma (traditional healer), identifiable by her Umeyeko (dreads?) hairstyles with rings of white beads threaded in. The neck ornament with the horn attachment probably contains medicine, as do the leather? amulets. She is also wearing a strip of antelope? hide around her neck, and a neck ornament consisting of a metal? spoon with a beaded handle. She is dressed in a cloth wrap with a separate fur band at the top, and a grass belt. In her right hand she holds a lishoba (fly-whisk). [Information provided by by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 14/11/2012]

Place

S Africa; South Africa; KwaZulu-Natal; Durban [Natal]

Cultural Affliation

Zulu

Named Person

Photographer

Acutt, Lynn [Photographic Studio]

Collector / Expedition

Lynn Acutt

Date

circa 1920

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.56124.ACH2 to P.56156.ACH2 were found in the envelope now numbered C263/1/1/ which was inside C263/1/, or the first drawer of the entire green cabinet formerly numbered as batch 149, and now re-numbered C263/.

P.56140.ACH2 to P.56154.ACH2 (except P.56145.ACH2) were taken by Lynn Acutt.