IDNO

P.56861.

Description

Portrait of a Chief Mpikanini from Nongoma, the second cousin of Dinizulu kaCetshwayo. The man is wearing a blanket with a tiger skin design and a Greek 'key' meander pattern on the borders. He is sitting in a chair with poker-work designs, and holding a European-style walking stick. There is a thatch house in the background. [Information provided by by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 12/13/2012]

Place

S Africa; South Africa; KwaZulu-Natal Province; Nongoma [Zululand]

Cultural Affliation

Zulu

Named Person

Mpikanini; Dinizulu kaCetshwayo

Photographer

Duggan-Cronin, Alfred Martin

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1919 - 1939

Collection Name

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.56850 to P.56871. were found inside the brown envelope C268/1/1/ which was inside the first drawer of the green cabinet, now numbered C268/1/.
C268/ is the new number given to the entire cabinet which was formerly numbered as batch 144.

Biographical Information: There is an article on A.M. Duggan-Cronin and his photographs in the South African Art Times, 1.2.2007. [Source: www.arttimes.co.za/news_read.php?news_id=700, JD 22/1/2010]

Related Image: A portrait of the same man is held at the Smithsonian Museum, reference NAA INV 06030000, with the following information:
Title: Man, Chief?, in Costume n.d.
Phy. Description: 1 photoprint 004 in x 006 in Black and white photoprint
Place of creation: South Africa
Cite as: DOE Africa: South Africa: Gen/Unid 06030000, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Culture: Bantu; Zulu?
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 12/13/2012]