IDNO

P.56867.

Description

A large group dancing during a wedding at Henley, which the BAAS conference group visited on the 25th August 1905. The wedding was between the chief, Mhlola of the Nadi, and a commoner bride. [Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/16/2013]

Place

S Africa; South Africa; KwaZulu-Natal; near Pietermaritzburg; Henley [Natal]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [B.A.A.S. Meeting 1905, Cape Town]

Date

25 August 1905

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.

Expedition / Collector: This photograph was taken during a wedding, which the BAAS conference group visited on the 25th August 1905. The wedding was between the chief, Mhlola of the Nadi, and a commoner bride. [Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/16/2013]

Publication: The photograph has been digitised for the European Collected Library of Artistic Performance (ECLAP) and is accessible on the portal http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/. [SG 30/10/2012]