IDNO

P.57199.RDG

Description

‘Dance of Amaquetta’ [sic Amanguba] performed after the completion of the circumcision rites. A row of male youths dressed in grass skirts, their heads concealed by conical grass full head masks, and their bodies coated in white clay, all carry sticks in their right hands. Men, wrapped in blankets and wearing head bands, sit on the ground in the foreground watching the performance. In the background a hut is just visible to the left and hills are in the background.

Place

S Africa; South Africa; Eastern Cape

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa ?1910

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.57192.RDG to P.57260.RDG were found in C274/1/ which came from C274/. The latter was kept in Wooden Drawer VI.

P.57198.RDG and P.57199.RDG are pasted on same mount.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 2/7/2007]

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]