IDNO

P.56146.ACH2

Description

Portrait of a Zulu woman wearing a pregnancy apron, made of antelope? hide with conical metal studs, and worn to protect the unborn baby. The photograph is taken in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, near Durban. [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; Valley of a Thousand Hills; 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.