IDNO

P.56916.ACH2

Description

Group of Batlokwa women wearing oversized beaded collars, normally in green, yellow, brown and white colours, leather capes worn asymmetrcally, and calf-length beaded tassels worn from their belts. [Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/9/2013]

Place

S Africa; South Africa; KwaZulu-Natal Province

Cultural Affliation

Batlokwa

Named Person

Photographer

?Rogers, G. F.

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Rogers, G. F.

Format

Postcard

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.56907.ACH2 to P.56928.ACH2 were found inside the envelope now numbered C268/1/5/ which was inside C268/1/, or the first drawer of the entire green cabinet formerly numbered batch 144 and now numbered C268/.

Cultural Group: The Group field was previously recorded as being “Zulu”, but by the women's beadwork and outfits they are Batlokwa people. The Group field has been amended accordingly. [Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/9/2013]

Place: The postcard is inscribed as 'Thousand Valleys', but this should read as 'Valley of a Thousand Hills', but it is very unlikely that these Batlokwa women resided there. [Information provided by Nessa Leibhammer, Curator of Traditional Southern African Collections, Johannesburg Art Gallery, JD 1/9/2013]